The heart of the Big Sur region, Jeffers undertook his lifelong celebration of On his intellectual development was his wife, Una, whom he met in a class onįaust at USC and who later studied for a doctorate in philosophy at theĪfter marrying (1913), the couple moved to Carmel, and in 1919 the poet himselfīegan building a stone cottage on land purchased overlooking Carmel Bay andįacing Point Lobos near the cottage he built a forty-foot stone tower. University of Washington, where he studied forestry. A final episode of formal education took place at the Where he distinguished himself as a student and taught physiology at the USCĭental college. Returning to USC in September 1907, he was admitted to the medical school, Literary history, Dante, Spanish romantic poetry, and the history of the Roman Empire. Was back in Switzerland taking courses in philosophy, Old English, French Literature at the University of Southern California. Jeffers immediately entered graduate school as a student of Jeffers matriculated as a junior at Occidental College, from which he was Tutelage was followed by travel in Europe. Supervised Jeffers’s education, and the son began at five to learn Greek. Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis and Biblical andĮcclesiastical History at Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Literature, religion, philosophy, languages, myth, and sciences. This plan to be “original” Jeffers brought enormous learning in Poet would need “emotions or ideas, or a point of view, or even mere rhythms, Recognizable emotions would have to go.” To make an advance in poetry, a Lane.ideas had gone, now meter had gone, imagery would have to go then Of poetry, had turned off the road into a narrowing He demurred, “renouncing intelligibility in order to concentrate on the music “divorcing poetry from reason and ideas, bringing it nearer to music.” But, Some of his contemporaries were pursuing originality by Without originality, he said, a poet was only a Jeffers described briefly his misgivings about the direction of Write contrasted strikingly not only with his early poetry but also with that The intensity of the long narratives he then began to Jeffers turned from the derivative versifying of his earlier volumes, FlagonsĪnd Apples and Californians, to themes and presentation that won him anĮnthusiastic audience. With the publication of Tamar (1924), Robinson
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