Cawdor (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robinson Jeffers
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1900
- Setting: Carmel Coast Range, California
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Nature, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Pacific Northwest, Life, philosophy of
- Locales: California
Characters Discussed
Cawdor, a fifty-year-old farmer, hard and strong. Drawn to worship Fera’s youthful beauty and contrarily to possess her sexually, he bargains to let her father stay in his home if Fera will marry him. Rightly suspecting Fera’s later passion for Hood but mistaken in believing Hood guilty, Cawdor seeks confirmation of his suspicions. Burning with jealousy, he believes Fera’s lie that Hood raped her in the laurels; enraged, he meets Hood at the high rock and knocks him over the adjacent cliff. When he learns from Fera of Hood’s innocence, he blinds...
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Robinson Jeffers (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Robinson Jeffers (Poetry)Robinson Jeffers (Identities and Issues)
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