Be angry at the sun / Robinson Jeffers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

University of Pennsylvania. Library (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 156 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First printing.

Other Title:

Be angry at the sun and other poems

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1941]

Contents:

Mara

The bowl of blood

That noble flower

I shall laugh purely

Prescription of painful ends

Faith

The excesses of God

The sirens

Birthday

My dear love

The house-dog's grave

Come, little birds

Contemplation of the sword

Watch the lights fade

Nerves

The soul's desert

The day is a poem

Great men

Moon and five planets

Battle

The stars go over the lonely ocean

For Una

Two Christmas-Cards

Drunken Charlie

Shine, Empire

The bloody sire

Be angry at the sun.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title page printed in black and brown with brown title vignette.

"... I wish ... to lament the obsession with contemporary history that pins many of these pieces to the calendar, like butterflies to cardboard. Poetry is not private monologue, but I think it is not public speech either; and in general it is the worse for being timely ... Yet it is right that a man's views be expressed, though the poetry suffer for it. Poetry should represent the whole mind; if part of the mind is occupied unhappily, so much the worse. And no use postponing the poetry to a time when these storms may have passed, for I think we have but seen a beginning of them; the calm to look for is the calm at the whirlwind's heart."--Note.

Includes index.

Black cloth boards lettered and decorated in gilt.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has embossed stamp of University of Pennsylvania Library.

Culture Class Collection copy has marginal marks and ms. annotations.

Culture Class Collection copy has brown stain in lower right hand corner throughout.

OCLC:

10237007