Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems

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The book that first announced Robinson Jeffers to the world in 1925, taking American poetry by storm with what biographer Melba Bennett called this strange and violent voice. Featuring the classic poems Roan Stallion, Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Shine Perishing Republic, Divinely Superfluous Beauty, and many more.

The greatest poetic consciousness of our day … [The Tower Beyond Tragedy] should be accepted as the first, direct, harmonious modern work of poetic art equal to the Greeks. - Stuart Gilbert, Shine, Perishing Republic: A Study of Robinson Jeffers