Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION vii
4. 1 Robinson Jeffers: Poet of Carmel-Sur 1
5. 2 In the Poet's Lifetime 19
6. 3 Robinson Jeffers and the Uses of History 30
7. 4 Telling the Past and Living the Present: "Thurso's Landing" and the Epic Tradition 48
8. 5 Jeffers's "Roan Stallion" and the Narrative of Nature 64
9. 6 "Divinely Superfluous Beauty": Robinson Jeffers's Versecraft of the Sublime 84
10. 7 Robinson Jeffers and the Female Archetype 110
11. 8 Desire, Death, and Domesticity in Jeffers's Pastorals of Apocalypse 137
12. 9 Nature and the Symbolic Order: The Dialogue Between Czeslaw Milosz and Robinson Jeffers 177
13. 10 All Flesh Is Grass 204
14. A Review of Jeffers Scholarship 239
15. Works by Robinson Jeffers: A Chronological Listing 243
16. Contributors 247