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Keywords

Jeffers, Robinson, --1887-1962; Jeffers, Robinson, --1887-1962;

Abstract

When one reads many of the long narrative poems of Robinson Jeffers, one wonders at the characters who act out their lives against a backdrop of the contemporary California coastal region. The characters live isolated lives as ranchers, farmers, and farm women; they go about the business of eking out an existence, of cultivating their land, of caring for their livestock. Often, they commit horrible, unnatural acts and always, they or their families are involved in episodes which result in death or injury. Although these characters do not have the stature of an Oedipus or a Medea, their lives and their deaths have the same tragic intensity.

Year of Submission

1953

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Education

Department

Department of English and Speech

First Advisor

John Cowley

Second Advisor

Rebecca Baker

Third Advisor

L. H. Harris

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Date Original

1953

Object Description

1 PDF file (82 leaves)

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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