The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Vol 5: Volume Five: Textual Evidence and Commentary

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that California (and indeed the American West) has produced but a major poet of the twentieth century who occupies a prominent place in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. Jeffers consciously set himself apart from the poetry of his generation by physical isolation at his home in Carmel, by his unusual poetic form, and by his stance as an anti-modernist. Yet his work represents a profound, and profoundly original, artistic response to problems that shaped modernist poetry and that still perplex poets today. Now, for the first time, all of Jeffers s completed poems, both published and unpublished, are presented in a single, comprehensive, and textually authoritative edition of five volumes.