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
- Stone Prophet: The rise of Robinson Jeffers, from his birth in 1887 to the publication of Cawdor in 1928
- Fire Poet: Robinson Jeffers as a poet distinctly associated with fire
- Finding his Form: A genealogy of Robinson Jeffers' poetic form
- Autumn and Winter: The Decline, Recovery, and Death of Robinson Jeffers
- Honeyed Truth: The nuanced honesty of Robinson Jeffers
- Poet-Mortem: The legacy of the poet and the prophet
2. A Brief Telling of Jeffers’ story
- House and Tower — Welcome to Tor House
- The Artist as a Young Man — the shaping of John Robinson Jeffers
- Renaissance — A poetry revival in America and abroad
- War & Leisure — passing wartime in Bohemia-by-the-Sea
- The War Dividend — blessings of the war
- Metric of Stone — the building of a tower — and an artist
- Stone Prophet — inhumanism and the wild God of the world
- Fame and Distraction — the wages of success
- Armageddon, Act II — saved by the war
- Descent to the Dead — the last days of an ornery old prophet
- 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
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