The Poems of Robinson Jeffers with George Hart

<p>“To feel/Greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural/Beauty, is the sole business of Poetry”—Robinson Jeffers’ “The Beauty of Things”</p> <p> </p> <p>For Episode 9 of the Lit Matters Podcast, Chris is joined by California State University of Long Beach Professor, George Hart to discuss one of California’s most important…and forgotten poets, Robinson Jeffers. Stone-mason, naturalists, scandalous recluse, and foreboding prophet of “Inhumanism,” Jeffers composed so many beautiful poems while overlooking the majestic power of the Pacific Ocean and building a three story tower of granite by hand. </p> <p> </p> <p>Suggested Works by and About Robinson Jeffers:</p> <ul><li>The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, edited by Albert Gelpi</li> <li>Jeffers’ 1948 New York Timesarticle, “Poetry, Gongorism, and a Thousand Years” at <a href='https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/01/18/96585266.html?pageNumber=170'>https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/01/18/96585266.html?pageNumber=170</a></li> <li>Robinson Jeffers’ Cawdor and Medea: A Long Poem after Medea</li> <li>Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems</li> <li>Professor George Hart’s Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Information on visiting Robinson Jeffers’ Carmel, California home, Tor House can be found at <a href='https://www.torhouse.org/'>https://www.torhouse.org/</a></p>