Hurt Hawks (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Brophy, Robert, Robinson Jeffers: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol in His Narrative Poems, Shoe String Press, 1976.

  Brophy traces connections between Jeffers’s deep understanding of Greek mythology and Christianity and the symbols which reoccur in his narrative poems.

• Coffin, Arthur, Robinson Jeffers: Poet of Inhumanism, University of Wisconsin Press, 1971.

  Coffin identifies examples from Jeffers’s work to illustrate the role of Inhumanism in the poet’s life and writing.

• Everson, William, Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure, Stanford University Press, 1988.

  For those who believe Jeffers’s work defined a new religion, Everson finds connections between the poet’s work and his philosophically driven life.

• Zaller. Robert, The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of Robinson Jeffers, Cambridge University Press, 1983.

  Zaller views Jeffers’s work through the lens of the poet’s solitary life on the coast of Big Sur in Monterey, California.