Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaller, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Jeffers, Robinson.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Jeffers, Robinson--Criticism and interpretation.

Sublime, The, in literature.

American poetry.

Local Subjects:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Jeffers, Robinson--Criticism and interpretation.

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime is the most comprehensive and most substantial critical work ever devoted to the major American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his own as Frost did New England and Faulkner, Mississippi, and connecting it to the wider tradition of the American sublime in Emerson, Thoreau, and John Muir. The book also links Jeffers to a Puritan sublime in early American verse and explores his response to the Darwinian and Freudian revolu

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Framing the American Sublime; 1. Heavenly Meditations; 2. Transcendental Etudes; 3. Darwinian Redemptions; 4. Configuring the California Sublime; 5. The Sacrificial Son; 6. Democratic Vistas; 7. The Cosmological Sublime; Post Mortem; Abbreviations; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804781022

0804781028

OCLC:

778339823