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Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers New edition [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 277 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 290 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2003
  • Kirjastus: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0804745927
  • ISBN-13: 9780804745925
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 277 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 290 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2003
  • Kirjastus: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0804745927
  • ISBN-13: 9780804745925
Teised raamatud teemal:
An intense collection of poems from the great Western poet surveys the writer's work and features revealing statements about his poetics and philosophy. Simultaneous. (Poetry)

Gelpi (emeritus, American literature, Stanford U.) has created a thoughtful introductory text on the work of Jeffers (d. 1962). His lengthy introduction describes Jeffers' life and work. The selection of poems which follows includes his epic Cawdor . Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has produced but also a major poet of the twentieth century in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This anthology serves as an introduction to Jeffers’s work for the general reader and for students in courses on American poetry.

Jeffers composed each volume of his verse around one or two long narrative or dramatic poems. The Wild God of the World follows this practice: in it, Cawdor, one of Jeffers’s most powerful narratives, is surrounded by a representative selection of shorter poems.

At the end of the book, the editor has provided revealing statements about Jeffers’s poetry and poetics, and about his philosophy of nature and human nature.

Arvustused

"For too many decades Jeffers has been the forgotten giant of American poetry. The Wild God of the World gathers his best and most central work. For those who would discover Jeffers, the intense beauty of his poems of the California coast; the reach of his meditations on history, science, and God; and the lyricism of his personal poems, this is the place to start-and a place to return again and again." -Tim Hunt, Washington State University "Of all the poets of his generation, [ Robinson Jeffers] made our relation to this earth and sea and sky and wheeling seasons and the evolutionary processes that made trees and salmon runs and hunting hawks, his subject. As that relation grows more troubled, his words become more necessary. To have this beautifully edited and freshly seen anthology is a gift." -Robert Hass,University of California, Berkeley

Preface ix
Introduction: Robinson Jeffers and the Sublime 1(22)
POETRY
Divinely Superfluous Beauty
23(1)
The Excesses of God
23(1)
To the Stone-Cutters
24(1)
To the House
24(1)
Salmon Fishing
25(1)
Natural Music
25(1)
To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House
26(1)
The Cycle
27(1)
Shine, Perishing Republic
28(1)
Continent's End
29(2)
Point Joe
31(1)
Point Pinos and Point Lobos
32(5)
Birds
37(1)
Boats in a Fog
38(1)
Granite and Cypress
39(1)
Phenomena
40(1)
Doors to Peace
41(1)
Post Mortem
42(1)
Pelicans
43(1)
Apology for Bad Dreams
44(4)
Credo
48(1)
Hurt Hawks
49(1)
Bixby's Landing
50(1)
Tor House
51(1)
Ninth Anniversary
52(1)
Cawdor
53(95)
Hooded Night
148(1)
Evening Ebb
148(1)
The Bed by the Window
149(1)
Winged Rock
149(1)
November Surf
150(1)
Fire on the Hills
150(1)
Still the Mind Smiles
151(1)
Return
151(1)
Love the Wild Swan
152(1)
Rock and Hawk
153(1)
Shine, Republic
154(1)
Flight of Swans
155(1)
Gray Weather
156(1)
The Purse-Seine
157(2)
The Wind-Struck Music
159(2)
Nova
161(1)
The Beaks of Eagles
162(1)
Oh Lovely Rock
163(1)
Night without Sleep
164(2)
The Bloody Sire
166(1)
For Una
167(3)
Cassandra
170(1)
The Eye
170(1)
The Blood-Guilt
171(1)
Original Sin
172(1)
Tragedy Has Obligations
173(1)
Rhythm and Rhyme
174(1)
Animals
174(1)
The Beauty of Things
175(1)
Carmel Point
175(1)
De Rerum Virtute
176(3)
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
179(2)
The Shears
181(1)
Birds and Fishes
182(1)
Vulture
183(1)
Granddaughter
184(1)
Hand
184(1)
Oysters
185(4)
PROSE
Letter to Sister Mary James Power (1934)
189(2)
Introduction to Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (1935)
191(3)
From Foreword to The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1938)
194(2)
Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years (1948)
196(5)
Statement to the American Humanist Association (March 25, 1951)
201(2)
A Chronology of Jeffers' Books of Poetry 203(1)
Index of Titles 204
Albert Gelpi is William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Among his many books is The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov (Edited with Robert Bertholf); (Stanford, Forthcoming).