Jeffers, Robinson 1887-1962

Overview

Works:	1,087 works in 2,022 publications in 5 languages and 60,969 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama Poetry Film adaptations Television adaptations Biography
Roles:	Adapter, Editor, Performer, Illustrator, Author of screenplay, Composer, Honoree, Author of introduction, Lyricist, Dedicatee, Other
Classifications:	PS3519.E27, 811.52

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Robinson Jeffers

Publications by Robinson Jeffers

Publications by Robinson Jeffers, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers by Frederic Ives Carpenter ( Book )
Modern American poetry; essays in criticism by Jerome Mazzaro ( Book )
After the genteel tradition; American writers, 1910-1930 by Malcolm Cowley ( Book )
Modern American poetry, 1865-1950 by Alan Shucard ( Book )
American playwrights on drama by Horst Frenz ( Book )

The Twenties: poetry and prose; 20 critical essays by Richard E Langford ( Book )
Robinson Jeffers, dimensions of a poet by Robert J Brophy ( Book )
The loyalties of Robinson Jeffers by Radcliffe Squires ( Book )
A poet's alphabet : reflections on the literary art and vocation by Louise Bogan ( Book )
A history of American poetry, 1900-1940 by Horace Gregory ( Book )
Robinson Jeffers; poet of inhumanism by Arthur B Coffin ( Book )
The twenties : fiction, poetry, drama by Warren G French ( Book )
Material dreams : Southern California through the 1920s by Kevin Starr ( Book )
Modern American poetry: essays in criticism by Guy Owen ( Book )
Rock and hawk : Robinson Jeffers and the romantic agony by William Henry Nolte ( Book )
Robinson Jeffers: myth, ritual, and symbol in his narrative poems by Robert J Brophy ( Book )
The stone mason of Tor House; the life and work of Robinson Jeffers by Melba Berry Bennett ( Book )
The selected poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
The critical reputation of Robinson Jeffers; a bibliographical study by Alex A Vardamis ( Book )
Robinson Jeffers : the man & his work by Lawrence Clark Powell ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Robinson Jeffers

American poetry : the twentieth century by The Library of America ( Book )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,384 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

The selected poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
28 editions published between 1927 and 2008 in English and held by 1,544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Medea by Robinson Jeffers ( Visual )
32 editions published between 1959 and 2013 in English and held by 1,475 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Kennedy Center production of Euripides' great classic about a woman driven by emotion beyond the brink of rationality. Medea is abandoned by her husband Jason so he can marry the daughter of Creon, ruler of Corinth, and is exiled by Creon as a dangerous foreigner. She exacts revenge by causing the deaths of Creon and his daughter and by murdering her own and Jason's two children before escaping into exile in Athens

Roan stallion, Tamar and other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
47 editions published between 1925 and 1953 in English and held by 1,420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Jeffers' best known volume includes The Tower Beyond Tragedy, a modern version of Aeschylus' Oresteia

The beginning & the end, and other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
13 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 1,402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The selected letters of Robinson Jeffers, 1897-1962 by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
14 editions published in 1968 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Not man apart; lines from Robinson Jeffers by David Brower ( Book )
18 editions published between 1965 and 1986 in English and held by 1,018 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The women at Point Sur and other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
21 editions published between 1927 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 987 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Among other things, Jeffers has called The women at Point Sur a study in the origin of religions

The collected poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
12 editions published between 1988 and 2000 in English and held by 891 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The first three volumes of this four-volume work will present chronologically all of Jeffers' published work from 1920 to 1963. Jeffers' publishers sometimes adjusted his punctuation, presumably to bring the poems' punctuation into accord with grammatical convention. The texts for this edition revert to Jeffers' own preferences, insofar as the best methods of modern textual editing can reveal them

The selected poetry of Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
8 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 789 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This new Jeffers "Selected Poetry" includes poems from the last quarter century of his life (the previous "Selected Poetry" included poems only through 1937). It derives from the monumental five-volume "The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers" (Stanford, 1988-2000), edited by Tim Hunt, and includes a sampling of the poems Jeffers left unpublished, along with several prose pieces in which he reflects on his poetry and poetics

Dear Judas, and other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
18 editions published between 1929 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 760 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
16 editions published between 1963 and 1987 in English and held by 680 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rock and hawk : a selection of shorter poems by Robinson Jeffers by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
4 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 663 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Medea by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
21 editions published between 1946 and 2000 in 5 languages and held by 655 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The double axe, & other poems, including eleven suppressed poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
7 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 606 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hungerfield and other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
9 editions published between 1951 and 1954 in English and Undetermined and held by 546 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cawdor, a long poem. Medea, after Euripides by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 528 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Such counsels you gave to me & other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
10 editions published in 1937 in English and Undetermined and held by 506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Give your heart to the hawks and other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
9 editions published in 1933 in English and Undetermined and held by 493 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thurso's landing and other poems by Robinson Jeffers ( Book )
14 editions published between 1932 and 1933 in English and Undetermined and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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