Research Catalog

Title

The wild god of the world : an anthology of Robinson Jeffers / selected, with an introduction, by Albert Gelpi.

Author

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gelpi, Albert.

Description

x, 204 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poems.
• Poésie.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 19) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Robinson Jeffers and the Sublime -- Poetry -- Divinely Superfluous Beauty -- The Excesses of God -- To the Stone-Cutters -- To the House -- Salmon Fishing -- Natural Music -- To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House -- The Cycle -- Shine, Perishing Republic -- Continent's End -- Point Joe -- Point Pinos and Point Lobos -- Birds -- Boats in a Fog -- Granite and Cypress -- Phenomena -- Doors to Peace -- Post Mortem -- Pelicans -- Apology for Bad Dreams -- Credo -- Hurt Hawks -- Bixby's Landing -- Tor House -- Ninth Anniversary -- Cawdor -- Hooded Night -- Evening Ebb -- The Bed by the Window -- Winged Rock -- November Surf -- Fire on the Hills -- Still the Mind Smiles -- Return -- Love the Wild Swan -- Rock and Hawk -- Shine, Republic -- Flight of Swans -- Gray Weather -- The Purse-Seine -- The Wind-Struck Music -- Nova -- The Beaks of Eagles -- Oh Lovely Rock -- Night without Sleep -- The Bloody Sire -- For Una -- Cassandra -- The Eye -- The Blood-Guilt -- Original Sin -- Tragedy Has Obligations -- Rhythm and Rhyme -- Animals -- The Beauty of Things -- Carmel Point -- De Rerum Virtute -- The Deer Lay Down Their Bones -- The Shears -- Birds and Fishes -- Vulture -- Granddaughter -- Hand -- Oysters -- Prose -- Letter to Sister Mary James Power (1934) -- Introduction to Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (1935) -- From Foreword to The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1938) -- Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years (1948).

ISBN

• 0804745919
• 9780804745918
• 0804745927
• 9780804745925

LCCN

2002153166

OCLC

• ocm50959035
• 50959035
• SCSB-9502068

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library