Jeffers, [John] Robinson
Jeffers, [John] Robinson( 1887–1962),born in Pittsburgh, traveled widely on the Continent until his family settled in California when he was 16. After graduation from Occidental College (California) and desultory graduate study of medicine and other subjects in the U.S. and abroad, he settled with his wife in the town of Carmel, whose surrounding country is the setting of his poetry. After two undistinguished volumes, Flagons and Apples (1912) and Californians (1916), containing his first California narratives and descriptive pieces, he published Tamar and Other Poems (1924), including two long works: the title narrative, adapting the Biblical legend to modern experience in a California scene, and “The Tower Beyond Tragedy” his own version of the legend of Orestes and Electra, in which Orestes finds salvation from the madness of self-centered humanity by “falling in love outward” with his nonhuman surroundings. Other...
[The entire page is 1026 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Oxford University Press Titles
