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Robinson Jeffers and the American sublime
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Robinson Jeffers and the American sublime

Stanford University Press
2012

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American poetry Criticism and interpretation History and criticism Sublime, The, in literature
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 revolutions and his engagement with modern astronomy.

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