Robinson Jeffers and the American Sublime [electronic resource].
Zaller, Robert.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
[2012]
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
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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
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962
American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism.
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Jeffers, Robinson - Criticism and interpretation.
Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
American poetry
Sublime, The, in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature