The Poet's Life

We have two depictions of the life and work of Robinson Jeffers. The first, Fire from Stone, is more thorough and detailed. The second is a brief telling of Jeffers' story.

1. Fire from Stone: The Poet’s Life and Work

1. Stone Prophet: The rise of Robinson Jeffers, from his birth in 1887 to the publication of Cawdor in 1928
2. Fire Poet: Robinson Jeffers as a poet distinctly associated with fire
3. Finding his Form: A genealogy of Robinson Jeffers' poetic form
4. Autumn and Winter: The Decline, Recovery, and Death of Robinson Jeffers
5. Honeyed Truth: The nuanced honesty of Robinson Jeffers
6. Poet-Mortem: The legacy of the poet and the prophet

2. A Brief Telling of Jeffers’ story

1. House and Tower — Welcome to Tor House
2. The Artist as a Young Man — the shaping of John Robinson Jeffers
3. Renaissance — A poetry revival in America and abroad
4. War & Leisure — passing wartime in Bohemia-by-the-Sea
5. The War Dividend — blessings of the war
6. Metric of Stone — the building of a tower — and an artist
7. Stone Prophet — inhumanism and the wild God of the world
8. Fame and Distraction — the wages of success
9. Armageddon, Act II — saved by the war
10. Descent to the Dead — the last days of an ornery old prophet
11. The Bed by the Window — a miracle of sorts

Gallery: Images of early Carmel and the Jeffers family

• Early Carmel: images of Carmel before 1919
• Portraits of a Poet
• A family album

A Carmel Chronology

• 1880 to 1899
• 1900 to 1909
• 1910 to 1913
• 1914 to 1919