Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)

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(John) Robinson Jeffers, (1887-1962), Poet, writer; born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He attended six colleges and universities in Europe and America, studying medicine and forestry among other subjects. He began writing in 1912, and, from 1924 on, lived in seclusion by the ocean near Carmel, Calif., where he built his own stone house. He is known for his mythical lyrics and narrative poems, as in Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems (1925), most of which promoted his pessimistic view of humanity in.. Continue..

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We Are Those People

End Of The World

Hurt Hawks

Shiva

The Epic Stars

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	Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

- Robinson Jeffers

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