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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. The first, from Random House in 1938, remained in print for more than 50 years.

a volume for the core of American literature collections.â€?—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.â€?—New York Review “This is the second such collection. 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.â€?—San Francisco Chronicle “Most welcome. We will lose something of value if we let Jeffers slip away. His narrative verse rivals Wordsworth’s or Byron’s. “t is hard to see how anyone can read Jeffers’s best poetry and not perceive greatness. This new selected edition, then, is a much broader, more accurate representation of Jeffers’s career than the previous Selected Poetry. When the poems were originally published, copy editors and typesetters adjusted Jeffers’s punctuation, often obscuring the rhythm and pacing of what he actually wrote, and at points even obscuring meaning and nuance. This edition also adopts the texts of the recently completed The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (five volumes, Stanford, 1988-2000). This new selected edition draws from these later volumes, and it includes a sampling of the poems Jeffers left unpublished, along with several prose pieces in which he reflects on his poetry and poetics. In the quarter century that followed, four more volumes of his poetry were published. When Jeffers shaped the 1938 Selected Poetry, he drew from his most productive period (1917-37), but his career was not over yet. This new selected edition differs from its predecessor in several ways. These developments underscore the need for a new selected edition that would, like the 1938 volume, include the long narratives that were to Jeffers his major work, along with the more easily anthologized shorter poems. Moreover, Jeffers stands as a crucial precursor to contemporary attempts to rethink our practical, ethical, and spiritual obligations to the natural world and the environment. Similarly, contemporary poets who have returned to the narrative poem acknowledge Jeffers to be a major poet, while those exploring California and the American West as literary regions have found in him a foundational figure. Now scholars are at last beginning to recognize that he created a significant alternative to the High Modernism of Pound, Eliot, and Stevens. For decades it drew enough poets, students, and general readers to keep Jeffers—in spite of the almost total academic neglect that followed his fame in the 1920s and 1930s—a force in American poetry. In 1938 Random House published The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, a volume that would remain in print for more than fifty years. He is the editor of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Tim Hunt is Professor of English at Washington State University. It derives from the monumental five-volume The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Stanford, 1988-2000), edited by Tim Hunt, and includes a sampling of the poems Jeffers left unpublished, along with several prose pieces in which he reflects on his poetry and poetics. This new Jeffers Selected Poetry includes poems from the last quarter century of his life (the previous Selected Poetry included poems only through 1937). World War, and the future of Western civilization. On close reading, Medea is inextricably linked to such discourses, and to Jeffers’ most trenchantly political volume of poetry, The Double-Axe: it is a text which subtly combines Euripides with polemical commentary on the atomic bomb, American involvement in the Second These works, influenced by Spengler, used narratives of the ancient world to point up the ‘decline’ of contemporary Western It sites Medea within a considerable body of post-Second World War literature which was engaged in polemical parataxis of ancient and modern

This article offers a rather different perspective: it examines Jeffers’ preoccupation withīlending the past and the present, and his debt to the historical theorist Oswald Spengler, who proposed a cyclical theory While many of Jeffers’ poetic works were highly engaged with contemporary politicalĭiscourses, critical opinion has been united in seeing Medea as fundamentally apolitical. Robinson Jeffers’ adaptation of Euripides’ Medea was a Broadway hit in the late 1940s.