Roan stallion : Tamar and other poems / by Robinson Jeffers ; with a new introduction by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962.

Contributor:

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Modern library of the world's best books

The Modern library of the world's best books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Lask Poetry Collection.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 295 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm.

Edition:

[First Modern Library edition].

Other Title:

Tamar and other poems

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Library, [1935]

Notes:

With half-title.

Title printed within double-ruled border.

"First Modern library edition 1935."

Expanded edition of "Tamar and other poems" with a new narrative and a drama "The Tower Beyond Tragedy".

"This originality, without which a writer of verses is only a verse-writer, is there any way to attain it? The more advanced contemporary poets were attaining it by going farther and father along the way ... divorcing poetry from reason and ideas, bringing it near to music ... Perhaps this was the means to attain originality: to make a guess which way literature is going, and go there first. This book began to be written three or four years later ... I did not stop to think whether the verses wer original or followed a tendency, or would find a reader. Nor have I every considered whether they deserved to find one."--Preface.

Rust-brown cloth boards with Modern Library emblem on front cover in gilt and spine lettered in gilt. Top edge stained red. Rockwell Kent endpapers.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

2738209