Because he thought "poets lie too much," Robinson Jeffers said in his foreword to The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (1938), he decided "not to pretend to believe in ... irreversible progress; not to say anything because it was popular . . ....

Because he thought "poets lie too much," Robinson Jeffers said in his foreword to The Selected Poetry (1938) he decided "not to pretend to believe in ... irreversible progress; not to say anything because it was popular ... unless I myself believed it;...

Robinson Jeffers is one of the great maverick poets of modern American literature. When the verse narrative had all but gone out of style, he continued to write long narrative poems. His meter of choice is an extraordinarily long line of accentual...

American poet John Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) glorified the stern beauties of nature. He saw the human race as doomed and often utilized Greek myths to emphasize man's tragic position in the universe. Robinson Jeffers was born on Jan. 10, 1887, in...