Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)

Poet, Playwright, Translator.
Active 1912-1954 in USA, North America

Robinson Jeffers is perhaps the most underrepresented, misunderstood, and underrated of the twentieth century’s American Modernist poets. It seems especially just to discuss him on the basis of four relatively untouched aspects: as a religious poet of the first order; as a cogent anti-Modernist Modernist – a verse innovator, dramatist, and literary theorist – as an interpreter of the West and of the Western myth... (more)

---Robert Brophy, California State University, Long Beach