The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts
The years 1921 to 1927 were the most productive of Robinson Jeffers's career. During this period, he wrote not only many of his most well-known lyric poems but also Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Roan Stallion, and The Women at Point Sur—the long poems that first established his reputation as a major American poet. Including an introduction, chronology, and critical afterword, the Point Alma Venus manuscripts presented here gather Jeffers's four unfinished but substantial preliminary attempts at what became The Women at Point Sur, which Jeffers believed was the "most inclusive, and poetically the most intense" of his narrative poems.

The Point Alma Venus fragments and versions shed important light on the composition and themes of The Women at Point Sur. Further, they likely predate other key work from this crucial period, making them a necessary context for those who wish to clarify Jeffers's poetic development and to reinterpret his practice of narrative poetry. Ultimately, they call on general and scholarly readers alike to reconsider Jeffers's place in the canon of modern American poetry.

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The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts
The years 1921 to 1927 were the most productive of Robinson Jeffers's career. During this period, he wrote not only many of his most well-known lyric poems but also Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Roan Stallion, and The Women at Point Sur—the long poems that first established his reputation as a major American poet. Including an introduction, chronology, and critical afterword, the Point Alma Venus manuscripts presented here gather Jeffers's four unfinished but substantial preliminary attempts at what became The Women at Point Sur, which Jeffers believed was the "most inclusive, and poetically the most intense" of his narrative poems.

The Point Alma Venus fragments and versions shed important light on the composition and themes of The Women at Point Sur. Further, they likely predate other key work from this crucial period, making them a necessary context for those who wish to clarify Jeffers's poetic development and to reinterpret his practice of narrative poetry. Ultimately, they call on general and scholarly readers alike to reconsider Jeffers's place in the canon of modern American poetry.

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The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts

The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts

The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts

The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts

Overview

The years 1921 to 1927 were the most productive of Robinson Jeffers's career. During this period, he wrote not only many of his most well-known lyric poems but also Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Roan Stallion, and The Women at Point Sur—the long poems that first established his reputation as a major American poet. Including an introduction, chronology, and critical afterword, the Point Alma Venus manuscripts presented here gather Jeffers's four unfinished but substantial preliminary attempts at what became The Women at Point Sur, which Jeffers believed was the "most inclusive, and poetically the most intense" of his narrative poems.

The Point Alma Venus fragments and versions shed important light on the composition and themes of The Women at Point Sur. Further, they likely predate other key work from this crucial period, making them a necessary context for those who wish to clarify Jeffers's poetic development and to reinterpret his practice of narrative poetry. Ultimately, they call on general and scholarly readers alike to reconsider Jeffers's place in the canon of modern American poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781503628083
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01/18/2022
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robinson Jeffers was a twentieth-century American poet. Tim Hunt, UniversityProfessor Emeritus, Illinois State University, is the editor of The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Stanford, 1988-2001). Robert Kafka is the editor of Where Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of Una and Robinson Jeffers (1987).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Note on Citations xv

The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts

1 Storm as Deliverer (initial version) 1

The Occidental Fragment 24

Fragmentary Beginning 1 27

Version A 30

2 The Ur-Point Alma Venus 45

Fragmentary Beginning 4 114

3 Storm as Deliverer (Mac Torald version) 125

Yale Fragment 158

4 Point Alma Venus 161

Fragmentary Beginning 2 236

Fragmentary Beginning 3 241

Harvard Fragment 249

Afterword 251

Chronology 283

Textual Notes and Apparatus 291

Emendations 297

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