Robinson Jeffers (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Robinson Jeffers explained his own work and expressed his ideas on society and art in some detail in the forewords to the Modern Library edition (1935) of his Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems and his Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1938). Other important prose statements are “Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years,” The New York Times Book Review, Jan. 18, 1948, pp. 16, 26; Themes in My Poems (1956); and The Selected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, 1897-1962 (1968, Ann N. Ridgeway, editor).

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