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Born in January 10, 1887 / Died in January 20, 1962 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Flagons and Apples, Grafton Publishing, 1912, reprinted, Cayucos Books, 1970.
  • Californians, Macmillan, 1916, reprinted, Cayucos Books, 1971.
  • Tamar and Other Poems, P. G. Boyle, 1924.
  • Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems, Boni & Liveright, 1925.
  • The Women at Point Sur, Boni & Liveright, 1927, reprinted, Liveright, 1977.
  • Poems, The Book Club of California, 1928.
  • Cawdor and Other Poems, Liveright, 1928, reprinted with play, New Directions, 1970.
  • Dear Judas and Other Poems, Liveright, 1929, reprinted, 1977.
  • Descent to the Dead: Poems Written in Ireland and Great Britain, Random House, 1931.
  • Thurso’s Landing and Other Poems, Liveright, 1932.
  • Give Your Heart to the Hawks, and Other Poems, Random House, 1933.
  • Solstice and Other Poems, Random House, 1935.
  • Such Counsels You Gave to Me and Other Poems, Random House, 1937.
  • The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, 1938.
  • Be Angry at the Sun, Random House, 1941.
  • The Double Axe and Other Poems, Random House, 1948, reprinted, Liveright, 1977.
  • Hungerfield and Other Poems, Random House, 1954.
  • The Loving Shepherdess, Random House, 1956.
  • The Beginning and the End and Other Poems, Random House, 1963.
  • Selected Poems, Vintage Books, 1965.
  • The Alpine Christ and Other Poems, Cayucos Books, 1974.
  • Brides of the South Wind: Poems 1917-1922, Cayucos Books, 1974.
  • What Odd Expedients and Other Poems, edited by Robert I. Scott, Shoe String Press, 1981.
  • Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems by Robinson Jeffers, edited by Robert Hass, Random House, 1987.
  • The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, edited by Tim Hunt, Stanford University Press, Volume I: 1920-1928, 1988, Volume II: 1928-1938, 1989.
  • The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, edited by Tim Hunt, Stanford University Press, 2001.

PLAYS

  • Medea (based on Euripides’s play of the same name; first produced on Broadway in 1948), Random House, 1946, reprinted with Cawdor, New Directions, 1970.
  • The Tower Beyond Tragedy (based on Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Jeffers’s poem of the same name), first produced in 1950.
  • The Cretan Woman (based on Euripides’s Hippolytus), first produced in 1954.

OTHER

  • Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years, Ritchie, 1949, reprinted, Folcroft, 1974.
  • Themes in My Poems, Book Club of California, 1956.
  • Ann N. Ridgeway, editor, The Selected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, 1897-1962, Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
  • The Last Conservative, Quintessence, 1978.
  • Songs and Heroes, introduction by Robert J. Brophy, Arundel Press, 1988.
  • The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers (edited by James Karman), Stanford University Press, Vol. 1, 2009; Vol. 2, 2011; Vol. 3, forthcoming.