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Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was born in Allegheny City, now known as the Northside of Pittsburgh. He lived most of his life in Carmel, California, where he built his home, Tor House and Hawk Tower, with this own hands. The natural world he saw from the tower each day, and humanity's place in it, are main themes of his body of work.
Banner photo of Pittsburgh at sunset was taken by Jason Pratt, 2005. Cropped. CC BY 2.0
Introductory Articles
Introductory Articles
Biography from the Poetry Foundation
Biography from the Robinson Jeffers Association
History of Tor House and Hawk Tower from the Tor House Foundation
History of Tor House and Hawk Tower from Wikipedia
Pittsburgh Years of Robinson Jeffers
Robinson Jeffers: The Early Years
A Selection of Poems from the Poetry Foundation
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
Selected Books by Robinson Jeffers
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Selected Books About Robinson Jeffers
The full text of all books below are available to read on Internet Archive, but you must sign up for a free Internet Archive account to borrow them and read them online. It only takes a minute to do this. Books not available on Internet Archive may be available to borrow from Allegheny County public libraries.
Jeffers Reading Selected Poems at the
Library of Congress (1941)
From the Robinson Jeffers Association
To the Stone-Cutters
Night
Natural Music
Hurt Hawks
Wise Men In Their Bad Hours
The Day Is a Poem
The Bloody Sire
Shane O’Neill’s Grave
Suicide’s Stone
Watch the Lights Fade
Now Returned Home
Oh, Lovely Rock
The Low Sky
An excerpt from The Tower Beyond Tragedy
Rhapsody & Requiem: The Life of Robinson Jeffers
From KPIX-TV, 1967
This work by Ted Bergfelt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license; CC BY-NC 4.0
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