The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers - Hardcover

Jeffers, Robinson

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9781443731072: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

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ISBN 10: 1443731072 ISBN 13: 9781443731072

Publisher: Quinn Press, 2008

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" Most welcome . . . a volume for the core of American literature collections." -- "Booklist"

" Tim Hunt, one of the nation's leading Jeffers scholars, has done a masterful job of sorting and choosing from a huge amount of material." -- "San Francisco Chronicle"

" [I]t is hard to see how anyone can read Jeffers' s best poetry and not perceive greatness. His narrative verse rivals Wordsworth' s or Byron' s. It is electrifying; the skin prickles. . . . We will lose something of value if we let Jeffers slip away. He expresses California' s peculiar ambience with unsurpassed vividness."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

"[I]t is hard to see how anyone can read Jeffers's best poetry and not perceive greatness. His narrative verse rivals Wordsworth's or Byron's. It is electrifying; the skin prickles. . . . We will lose something of value if we let Jeffers slip away. He expresses California's peculiar ambience with unsurpassed vividness."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Tim Hunt, one of the nation's leading Jeffers scholars, has done a masterful job of sorting and choosing from a huge amount of material."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Most welcome . . . a volume for the core of American literature collections."--Booklist

"The little prose Jeffers wrote is of the highest quality and the best of it is fortunately included in the back of The Selected Poetry."--New York Review

"Ultimately Jeffers poems are regenerative, inspired, dynamic, and transcendent, creating an evocative and richly rewarding, even visionary, immersion in the natural world that for all its verbosity makes the world tangible and restorative. As editor Tim Hunt observes, Jeffers's work demands more than just simple contemplation of nature, but rather 'identifying with it and recognizing one's final and inevitable participation in it.'"--Jeffery Beam "Oyster Boy Review "

"This is the second such collection. The first, from Random House in 1938, remained in print for more than 50 years. Hunt, editor of the five volumes of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, now provides an excellent replacement."--Virginia Quarterly Review

"One of the major virtues of this selection is its appeal to ecologically-oriented readers. . . . From any critical angle or interest, this Selected Poetry is the best entry into Jeffers's major work."--ISLE

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"[I]t is hard to see how anyone can read Jeffers's best poetry and not perceive greatness. His narrative verse rivals Wordsworth's or Byron's. It is electrifying; the skin prickles. . . . We will lose something of value if we let Jeffers slip away. He expresses California's peculiar ambience with unsurpassed vividness."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Tim Hunt, one of the nation's leading Jeffers scholars, has done a masterful job of sorting and choosing from a huge amount of material."--San Francisco Chronicle

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