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Title: Robinson Jeffers
Post by: OswaldTheOsprey on December 18, 2007, 11:15:18 PM
Justin Raimondo has a fascinating yet troubling story in the currest issue of The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan's fortnightly journal of opinion, on poet Robinson Jeffers. A leading literary figure of the interwar years, Jeffers ran afoul of the internationalist establishment during the war riddled 1940s. A true non-conformist like fellow poet Ezra Pound.

OswaldTheOsprey


http://amconmag.com/2007/2007_12_17/print/reviewprint.html

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p123/OswaldTheOsprey/IAP5/jeffers26.jpg)
Robinson Jeffers in 1926. (Corbis)



Title: Re: Robinson Jeffers
Post by: daedalus 2.0 on December 19, 2007, 08:43:34 AM
Yes, he ran so afoul with the establishment that they put him on a stamp.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Rjeffersstamp.jpg)


Title: Re: Robinson Jeffers
Post by: OswaldTheOsprey on December 19, 2007, 09:18:17 AM
Yes, he ran so afoul with the establishment that they put him on a stamp.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Rjeffersstamp.jpg)

He was honored with a postage stamp years after his death. Also, the last time I checked the literary establishment was not connected with the Post Office.

OswaldTheOsprey


Title: Re: Robinson Jeffers
Post by: Godot on January 18, 2008, 01:32:31 PM
I've never read anything by Jeffers, what can you recommend? I actually only know him from this stamp, still having the first-day cover from when I collected them as a kid.


Title: Re: Robinson Jeffers
Post by: OswaldTheOsprey on January 18, 2008, 09:25:07 PM
Here is the Wikipedia entry on Jeffers that includes a list of his work. Hope this helps.

OswaldTheOsprey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers