Here's one writer's account of visiting Tor House, reflecting on how it captures Jeffers’s passionate and enduring love for his wife, Una.įor more inspiration, see this article about the attraction of Big Sur for writers that may make you want to plan a trip yourself. John Robinson Jeffers (Janu January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast.
He described the land he chose as the site for the house as being like a 'prow and plunging cutwater of a ship. Jeffers named it 'Tor' house after the type of ground on which the house was situated, a rocky outcrop known as a 'tor'. To see Tor House, the stone house Jeffers built himself in Carmel, and how you can visit it, go here. Robinson Jeffers began construction on Tor House in 1918 and with the aid of a stone mason completed it in 1919. Plowing with his snout on Mal Paso Mountain. Long live freedom and damn the ideologies," "Keep clear of the fools that talk democracy The most widely available volume, however, is Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poetry, a slim paperback published by Vintage Books soon after Jeffers’ death. Start by marking The enduring voice: A Tor House journal : being a quest for the spirit of Robinson Jeffers, Americas great forgotten poet of the first. Robinson Jeffers was an American poet who glorified nature and saw the human race as holding a tragic place in. While the stars go over the lonely ocean," Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry. The old monster snuffled "Here are sweet roots,įat grubs, slick beetles and sprouted acorns. He developed a philosophy of inhumanism, which he described as "a shifting of emphasis from man to not man the rejection of human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman magnificence."īelow, for you to read aloud, a poem published in Poetrymagazine in 1940 that may capture some of your feelings as you watch the news these days. The imagery of the California coast and the wildness of nature appear in much of his work. (831) 624-1813 website The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, affiliated with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a nonprofit organization of volunteer members established in 1978 to acquire, maintain and provide for public access to Tor House, Hawk Tower and the surrounding gardens. He built a cottage of local granite he called Tor House, and then embarked.
stamp issued in the 1970s honoring Robinson Jeffers. American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) engendered controversy throughout.
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