Articles in RJN

  NOTE -- This index is adapted from the index contained in issue #100 of RJN.  The contents of the index are in the process of being linked to the individual issues of RJN.  For example, The article, "Una and Robin," by Mabel Dodge Luhan is linked to issue #81 of RJN.  By clicking on the hyperlink of Luhan's name in the author entries, you will open a copy of RJN #81 (in MS Word) and will find the article beginning on page 7 of the issue.  In the same manner, the index link to Robert Brophy's "Note" on Luhan's relationship with Robin and Una Jeffers will also access issue #81 of RJN.  

Refinements to both the index and the links to the RJN issues will continue as time and staff allow.

Author Entries

 

Abbey, E. RJ tribute 74:4

Adcock, B. Notes on Tor House, prophecy, and no RJ readers 83:6

American Literature Association Panel. RJ and narrative85:3

Barkan, P. J family 53:26

Bednar K. Czech translation 13:2; RJ in Czechoslovakia 27:8

Bender, A. Memoir 60:21
 
Brophy, R. Tor House Library 23:4; Dissertations 24:4; Theses 25:4; Landscape 29:11; Topography 30:13; Whitman 31:6; "Crumbs or the Loaf' 31:8; Apocalypse 32:4; "Medea" 33:4; "Roan Stallion" 34:11; "Salmon-Fishing" 35:6; Freudian interpretation 37:4; "Night" 37:6; RJ and Eliot 38:4; Distancing 38:5; Kirwan 39:6; "Signpost" 39:10; "Second-Best" 40:7; Theses and dissertations 45:7; RJ prose checklist 46:14; RJ prose 47:5; Poet's national role 55:43; On Apropos (Ponsold) 60:4; Meditation on Saviors 65:5;  Mabel Luhan and UJ 77:25; j Country for sale 78:16; Tor 1- louse contractor 78:24;  Aperitif and Moore 80:9; Note on Luhan's "Una and Robin" 81:5; Weiner: photographer 87:3; "Medea" 87:5; Class fieldtrip 88:14; California coast 88:27; Bukowski 90:6; Astrophysics 90:13; Ecology and Tor House 91:7; Everson 93-94:1, 12; The Beginning and the End and Collected Poetry "Last Poems" 95-96:51; Henry Miller 97:21; Placenames 98-99:1; Salvador Dali party 100:1

Buffum, R. RJ tribute 44:10

Bukowski, C. Interview 29:5

Campo, A. Evetson 93-94:109

Carpenter, D. Everson 92:13

Carpenter, E RJ and "Humanity" 10:2; 15:1

Caughey, J. Letter to Governor Brown 42:16

Cerwin, H. Memoir 33:3

Chaplin, C. Memoir 37:2

Coffin, A. lnhumanism 30:6

Commins, D. "The Double Axe" 72:10

Deutsch, M. Albert Bender 60:16

Dickie, J. "The Loving Shepherdess" 66:8;; RJ and the quality of things 71:23; Memoir 79:14

DeWitt, J. Mrs. Nash 52:27

Dinsmore, N. "Shakespeare's Grave" 69:15

Dougherty, D. J. RJ and James Wright 33:7

Drew, E Influence of Ireland on RJ 80:14

Eaton, D. Meeting RJ 69:5

Eberhart, R. Memoir 27:6

Everson, W Proposed collected poems of RJ 31:10; Astrological data 36:7; special issue     93-94

Falck, C. RJ: American Romantic? 84:7

Fox, C. RJ in Canada 92:16

Folkart, R. Ansel Adams 65:33

Frances, S. Wallace Stevens 63:8

Friede, D. RJ opera libretto 73:4

Garcia J. Heideggerian "dwelling" 95-9 6:15; "The Place for No Story" 97:26

Garland, G. Thomas Mann 37:7

Ghormley, W RJ's ancestry 54:3

Gilliam, H. RJ's genius 46:37

Gioia, D. "Strong Counsel" 73:4

Gluck, L. "Obstinate Humanity: Hass, Milosz, and J" 91:9

Gotham Book Mart. RJ inscriptions in Alberts's books 59:3

Hall, I. J family 88:4

Harmsen, T RJ at Occidental College 50:21; RJ's printers 74:7; Herbert Klein 76:IA, Ward Ritchie 97:16

Hastings, H. (RJ pseudonym) "Artificial Flight" 55:45

Hier, G. Thuban stone 91:28; Shiva and concepts of Hinduism in RJ's poetry 92:21, "The Great Wound" 95-96:29

Hinkley, V UJ memoir 82:9

Hughes, L. Memoir 55:28

Hughey, B. and R. "J Country Revisited" 98-99
 
Hunt, T "Flungerfield" 43:12; "To the Rock" manuscript 74:5; "Pearl Harbor" 76:15;Vendler review 77:22; "The Great Wound" and Bennett 79:18; "Sign-Post" manuscript 89:23
 
Huston, P. RJ's relevance 71:18 
 
Jeffers, B. RJ's social graces 100:12 Jeffers D. Corrigenda in The Stone Mason of Tor House 35:4; Kamil Bednar 35:19; RJ portraits 45:7; Building Tor House 53:8; Tor House furnishings 53:18
Jeffers, G. "Vignettes of My Father" 76:6; Tor House social life 100:8 Jeffers, R "Artificial Flight" (as H. Hastings) 55:45; Inscriptions in Alberts's books 59:3 1 Jeffers, U. Garden 66:16; Ancestry 75:7; Lincoln Steffens 92:42
 
Jordan-Smith, E Memoir 66:3
 
Kafka, R. "Brides of the South Wind" 34:9; The Stone Mason of Tor House corrigenda 51:5; RJ's published writings, 1907-1153:47; Scholarly materials, small and minor holdings (with M. Mooney) 56:47; "The Remembrance" 72:5; UJ's published review and articles 95-96:11; "Night" recording 97:10

Karman, J. William H. Jeffers 42:9

Keller, K. RJ's pace 32:7

Kelso, Dr. William H. Jeffers 43:6

Klein, H. Science 11:2; Science 14:2; Bednar 35:10; Georges Simenon 66:5

Krutch, J. Violence 29:6

Jordan-Smith, P. Memoir 66:3

Landau, R. Krishnamurti 89:7

Lardner, J. "Medea" 60:23

Larsen, S. and R. Joseph Campbell 89:10

Lawrynowicz, Polish translator 50:7

Lehman, B. Memoir 63:12

Levine, P RJ and Spain 91:5

Los Angeles Times. UJ's auto race 52:7

Luhan, M. "Una and Robin" 81:7

Lyman, W. RJ memoir 34:19

Lyon, H. Photographing RJ 18:2, 88:9; Little people of the Santa Lucias 48:7 Malnar, A. RJ's hawks 97:31

McAllister, M. "Return" 42:12 McDowell, M. Cawdor 82:5 McHaney, T. "Tamai" and Faulkner 29:16

Marshall, B. J family 69:17

Matthias, B. Phoebe Barkan 54:5; Krishnamurti 67:8

Mauthe, A. "Tamar" 25:8; Inhumanism 26:8

Miner, P. The Alpine Christ 40:3

Mitchell, M. New Critics 91:16; New Critics' politics 97:8

Mooney, M. Scholarly materials, small and minor holdings (with R. Kafka) 56:47

Moore, ]. "The Beginnings of J" 80:10

Murphy, P. Ursula K. Le Ciuin 72:20

Naiman, S. Miroslav Holub (Czech poet) 75:9

Nichols, B. RJ themes 74:27

Nickerson, E. Rhyme 39:12; Luhan at Yale 41:6; "The Holy Light of J's Poetry" 47:19; "A Structure of Opposites" 62:6; RJ poem in Yale collection: "Red ..." 72:7

Nolte, W "Fog" 16:2

Nuwer, H. Walter Van Tilburg Clark 44:11

Olson, T Frost, Eliot, and Pound 88:18; "Ossian's Grave" 89:13

Pascoe, S. "Birth-Dues" 38:6

Payne, J. Humanities Research Center 60:22

Peevey, R. Tao-te-Ching 55:31

Powell, L. Bennett 23:1; Memoir of Dijon 62:10; Diary vignettes on R) 65:7

Quigley, P The Double-Axe 86:8; RJN Web page 97:6

Ridgeway, A. RJ letters 12:2

Ritchie, W Quercus Press 34:15; "J: Some Recollections of RJ" 52:16

Rodgers, C. Checklist of RJ's poetical writings since 1934 48:11; Tamar text 54:19

Rorty, J. Memoir 27:4

Rothman D. Gongorism 95-96:18

Rudnick, L. Mabel Dodge Luhan and RJ 49:21

Saxon, W Krishnamurti 67:9

Scharton, M. "Solstice" 54:7

Schwab, A. Craven Betts 57:26; Edna St. Vincent Millay 59:17; Robin Lampson 78:41 Scott, R. World-as-net 38:10; Three RJ poems 44:18; RJ as anti-imagist 63:8; "Solstice" 65:7; The Loving Shepherdess source 73:3; Sterling's Strange Waters 74:19

Shaffer, E. "Inhabitation in the Poetry of RJ, Gary Snyder, and Lew Welch" 78:28 Shane, C. Hamilton Jeffers 46:41

Shaw, S. RJ and Buddhism 36:8 Smiley, K. Boni and Liveright 92:10

Smith, M. "Night" 90:15

Spier, L. RJ as a fascist 55:36

Steuding, R. "Shine, Perishing Republic" 21:2 Stevens, S. Spiritual legacy 7213

Van Dam. Greek drama 40:9

Van Doren, M. Memoir 27:3

Vardamis, A. Opinion of R]'s peers 69:11; The Faerie Queene 75:11

Vaughn, E. Dear Judas 51:7

Vendler, H. "Huge Pits of Darkness, High Peaks of Light" 77:13

Western Theological Seminary. William H. Jeffers 43:11

Williams, J. Memoir 79:16

Willis, S. UJ tribute 73:16

Wilson, D. Poetry versus prose in "Roan Stallion" 54:14

Zaller, R. The Tower Beyond Tragedy 58:5; Literary influences 69:7; "Tamar" 75:11;Vendler review 78:20

Zorn , J. Medea 90:8

 

Articles Noted

(Selected and representative.)

 

Ackerrnan, D. "RJ: The Beauty of Transhuman Things." The American Poetry Review (1983) 63:3

Bernheimer, M. "'Medea' [Opera] Premiere." Los Angeles Times (1988) 34:5

Brophy, R. "A Textual Note on RJ's The Beginning and the End." Papers of the  
   Bibliographical Society of America (1966) 16:2; "'Tamar,' 'The Cenci,'and Incest
    American Literature (1970) 27:3

Carpenter, F "RJ and the Torches of Violence." Poetry and Fiction in American Twenties (1964) 7:1; "RJ Today: Beyond Good and Beneath Evil," American Literature (1977) 48:3; “Post-Mortem': 'The Poet is Dead."' Western American Literature (1977) 49:6; "The Inhumanism of RJ." Western American Literature (1981) 58:4

Cokinos, C. "If We Can Be Saved: RJ Today and Tomorrow." North Dakota Quarterly (1989) 77:3

Devall, W. "Currents in the River of Environmentalism." Eco News (1977) 49:1

Everson, W "Earth Poetry." Sierra Club Bulletin (1970) 28:2; "Introduction."   
     Cawdor/Medea (1970) 25:1, 27:1

Fonza, D. "The Inhumanist and Poet of Violence." Leviathan (1977) 49:5

Gingerich, O. "The Galileo Affair." Scientific American (1982) 63:4

Harmsen, T "RJ and His Printers." Printing History (1987) 73:2

Haslam, G. "Predators in Literature." Western American Literature (1997) 56:4

Houston, J. "The Necessary Ecstasy: An Afterword to Cawdor." Cawdor (Yolla Bolly,   
      1984) 63:7, 64:3, 4

Hunt, T "A Voice to Nature: J's Tamar and Other Poems." American Literature (1989) 77:3

Jeffers, G. "Introduction." RJ A Portrait (Yolla BoIly, 1983) 63:6

Jerome, J. "Roan Stallion." Writers Digest (1983) 63:3

Keller, K. "California, Yankees, and the Death of God: The Allegory in J's Roan Stallion.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language (1970) 30:12

Knudson, C. "RJ and Teilhard de Chardin." (Loban seminar paper, 1970) 25:2

Kurrick, M. "RJ's Negations: The Dialectics of'Not' in'The Bloody Sire."' Psychocultural Review (1977) 51:4

Lal, G. "San Francisco's Bohemia of Yester-year-and Future." San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle (1980) 56:4

LeMaster, J. "Lorca, J, and the Myth of Tamar." New Laurel Review (1971) 39:3 Lime Kiln Press. Granite & Cypress (1976) 44:3-6

Lyon, T. "Western Poetry." Journal of the West (1980) 56:3

McHaney, T "RJ's 'Tamai and 'The Sound and the Fury." Mississippi Quarterly (1969) 27:3

Meredith, A. "Devolution." Journal of Theoretical Biology (1982) and CoEvolution Quarterly (1983) 63:5

Miura, T "Poetics of RJ: A Disclaimer of Modernism." Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters, Hosei University (1977) 51:3

Murphy, P. "RJ's Macabre and Darkly Marvelous Double Axe." Western American Literature (1985) 69:4

Nadel, B. "RJ's 'Cawdor : The Emergence of Man's Tragic Beauty." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 46:3

Nickerson, E. "J's Apocalypse and the 'Inevitable Place."' Western American Literature (1977) 46:3

Nolte, W "RJ, An Uncanny Prophet." The Alternative: An American Spectator (1976) 45:3

Porter, J. "RJ and the Poetry of the End." Antigonish Review (1993) 88:3

Redinger, E. "An Interview with Dame Judith Anderson." Drama and Theatre (1968-69)  
    28:2

Rolfe, L. "RJ: The Lost L A Years." Los Angeles Herald Examiner (1980) 56:3 Rorty, J. "The Ecology of RJ." Quarterly News-Letter (1967) 28:3

Seidenbaum, A. "RJ's Poem of Stones." Los Angeles Times (1978) 51:2

Sessions, G. "Spinoza and Jeffers on Man in Nature." Inquiry (1977) 49:8, 50:2

Scott, R. "RJ's Tragedies as Rediscoveries of the World." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (1975) 42:3

Slochower, H. "Hitler's Elevation of the Jew: Ego-Splitting and Ego Function." American Imago (1971) 35:2

Starr, K. "RJ and the Integrity of Nature." Sierra Club Bulletin (1977) 49:4Van Doren, M. "RJ." Proceedings, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters (1962) 5:2

Vendler, H. "Huge Pits of Darkness, High Peaks of Light." The New Yorker (1988) 77:13

 White, W. "RJ's Space." Personalist (1963) 20:3

Zaller, R. "Land and Value: The Ecology of RJ." Western American Literature (1991) 79:3

 

 

Subject Entries

Arts

(See also Film, Meta-Art/Ephemera, Music, Photos, Recording, Theater.)

Broadsides
"De Return Natura" (Southern Oregon State College) 43:2
"The Last Conservative" 50:5, 54:2

"Remembering Jeffers" (I layman) 60:2
"Curb Science?" 61:2

Calendars
Center for Internationalizing English 44:3
Sierra Club Wilderness Calendar for 1988 72:2

The Book Lovers' Calendar 1991 79:3

1993 Edward Abbey Western Wilderness Calendar 89:3

Dance
Medea (Jane Brown Dance C)mpany) 61:3, 65:2, 78:4, 84:3, 87:1

 

Drawings
Tor House (Lansdowne) 53:4 Charcoal sketch of RJ on cover of Vintage RJ Selected Poems (Colbum) 89:1.  Portraits (Werboff) 83:cover, 85:cover

 

Etchings
For The Loving Shepherdess (Jean Kellogg Dickie) 60:2, 66:8

Tor House (Partridge) 64:3

 

Exhibits
"Renate Ponsold / Robert Motherwell: Apropos Robinson Jeffers at California State University Long Beach, 1981 591

"Impressions of Bohemia" at Pacific Rim Galleries, Carmel, 1986 67:3
"Robinson Jeffers Country: Monterey Landscapes" at Occidental College, 1987  68:3 "RJ: The Man, The Poet" at California State University Long Beach, 1987 (39 photographs of RJ by Leigh Wiener opposite RJ autobiographical poems) 69:1 "Context: A Watercolor Exhibition" at 1993 Carmel Jeffers Festival (McRae) 88:1

 

Keepsakes
Kelmscott Manor 47:1 "George Sterling's Death" 48:2
"A Letter from UJ" 60:2

In No Small Measure (Beilke) 60:2
"Robinson Jeffers and Religion" 69:3, 83:1

 

Marker

Granite and bronze for Tor House (Yost and Scott) 64:2

 

Medals

RJ commemorative (Sindelar) 36:1 Kamil Bednar commemorative (Sindelar) 38:2

 

Mime
"Where I?" (Point Blank Mime Troupe) 61:2

Mural

RJ figure, WPA project at San Francisco Beach Chalet 56:6

 

Paintings

Occidental College Centennial art exhibit 68:3

"Storm Dance of Sea Gulls" at California State Poly College, 1970 (Loughran) 26:4 Watercolor exhibit 88:1

 

Photo Books

Not Man Apart (Sierra Club) 3:1, 4:2, 12:1, 30:7-9, 31:1, 32:1, Arrowood Press reprint 69:4
Jeffers Country (Lyon) 29:1, 30:4, 9
The Primal Alliance (Brower and Kauffman) 42:3, 47:3 
Headlands (Brower and Kauffman) 47:3, 48:2
Catalog of exhibit at California State University at Long Beach, 198159:2 
The Wilder Shore (Baer) 69:3

Portfolios

Apology For Bad Dreams (Linden) 67:2
Impressions of Bohemia 67:3
Shine, Perishing Republic 71:2
Point Lobos (Koch and Bussche) 71:4

 

Potters

Big Stir coast headlands photo 30:9

"Cassandra" (Kirwan) 39:8

“How Beautiful It Is" (Moe's Book Shop) 48:19
"Joy" 53:5

Sculpture

"Birds and Fishes" in glass (Steuben Glass) 2:1

Bronze hawk (Harth) 41:1

Bronze hawk (Downs) 64:2
Tor House key (replica) 64:2

Triptych

"The Journey" (Kirwan) 39:6

Woodcuts

"Tragedy Has Obligations" (Clough) 36:4

RJ head with hawk wings as poster (Baddock) 38:1, 83:1

Hawk and initials for RJ: The Man and His Work (Rockwell Kent) 52:22

Carmel hills (Landacre) 52:22

Tower (Landacre) 52:24, 74:12

“First Book" (Landacre) 52:21, 74:11

Woman mounting stallion (Landacre) 65:2

"A Little Scraping" (Coombs) 74:15

Roan Stallion (Wilsirom) 82:2

Bookmarks

"The Condor" 52:4
"Practical People" 63:3

 

Cook Books

Sincerely Yours (Bess Boardman, compiler, Grabhorn Press, 1942; includes RJ's recipe for kidney and mushroom stew) 74:10

Tea at Tor House (Tor House Foundation) 86:2

 

Films

The Eiger Sanction 40:2
Place For No Story (public television ecological documentary) 38^:1 Zandy's Bride 40:2

 

Gift Shop at Tor House

Unicorn brass faucet, Hawk Tower book ends, laminated bookmarks unicorn cards poem broadsides, poem paperweights, seed packets, and garden potpourri 91:2

 

Greeting Cards

Christmas greeting from Gleeson Library Associates (reprint of RJ's poem "Only an Hour" and reproduction of UJ's silver unicorn brooch) 21:1
The Journey triptych reproduced (Kirwan) 4Z:3
Tor House card (Lansdowne) 53:5

 

Keepsakes

Family, Friends and Poetry (Quintessence Publications) 58:4

 

Map

"Jeffers Country: A Literary Map" (Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald Beach" 54:1, 58:3, 6 I 1
Neck Ties and Cosmetic Bags
With Hawk Tower design (Talbott) 53:2

 

Plaques

Plaques on live oak trees in Saratoga, California, honoring RJ and Robert Frost 51

 

Poems

"Be Angry at San Pedro" (Locklin) 64:3

 

Post Cards

Photo profile of RJ (Musemail) 41:1
"Be Angry at the Sun" (Hamper) 89:3

 

Postage Stamps

U.S. Postal Service eight-cent commemorative: RJ profile (Lyon) 35:1, 36:1, 38:2 46:3, 47:2

Stamp cancellation, Carmel Post Office, October 2, 1987, commemorating RJ's centennial 71:3

 

Recording

"Beaks of Eagles" on Beach Boys Holland 38:1

 

Student Art

California State University at Long Beach RJ seminar final projects transcribe J  themes into various art forms: acrylic, dance, decoupage, macrame, mobiles, organ and guitar music, oils, and watercolors 39:2

 

T-Shirt

RJ profile (Lyon) 47:2

 

Triptych

The Journey (Kirwan) 42:3

Associations

Academy  of American Poets 48:18
American  Academy of Arts and Letters 4:3, 5:2
American an Library Association 7:1, 27:1 American Literature Association 78:5 ,79:8, 83:2,4, 84:2, 85:1, 89:2, 92:3 Bibliographical Society of America 16:2
Bohemian Club of San Francisco 53:4
Bollingen Foundation 2:2, 4:2
Book Club of California 73:2, passim
California American Studies Association 89:1
California Association of Teachers of English 63:3, 92:3 California Historical Society 53:5
California Studies Association 78:5, 88:3
Central California Conference of Teachers of English 45:2 Conference on Christianity and Literature 43:2
Gleeson Libarary Association 19:1, 21:1, 25:1
Grolier Club 1:2, 7:1
Henry Miller Library (Big Sur) 92:1
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 92:5 Jeffers Studies Advisory and Editorial Boards 87:3
Labyrinth Theater 12:1, 17:1, 18:1, 21:1
Modern Language Association 46:2, 48:3, 81:3, 92:3
National Council of Teachers of English 55:2
National Institute of Arts and Letters 5:2
Northern California Teachers of English 45:2
Poetry Society of America 24:1
RJ Association 85:1, 86:2, 89:3, 92:2, 97:4; Listserv 92:3; Web page 97:6
RJ Committee/National Council 1:1, 5:2, 6:2, 30:8, 42:1
RJN Editorial Board 26:7
Robinson Jeffers Society (San Francisco) 18:1
Roxburghe Club 60:2, 48:18
Sierra Club passim, especially Not Man Apart 49:1
Tor House Foundation 84:3, 86:2, 88:2; Board 53:2
Western Literature Association 81:3, 84:2
Zamorano Club 6:2, 48:18. 56:4, 60:2

 

Awards

(Incomplete.)

"Distinguished Fellow," RJ Tor House Foundation (Douglas Downs bronze hawk)

1979: Everson 52:1

1980: Brophy 57:2

1981: Powell 59:1

1982: Carpenter 62:2

1983: Caldwell 64:2

1984: Zaller 65:2

Jane & Henry Hoppin Fellow

1982: Nolte 62:2

Tor House Poet/Scholar in Residence

1984-85:liedin 65:1

1986-87: Docson 96:2

L. C. Powell for Distinguished Scholarship

1996: Brophy 97:4

Selected Poems (1966) 26:5

Tor House Key

1982 Ridgeway 62:2

Honorary Doctorate, Occidental College

1983: Dame Judith Anderson 63:2

 

Bibliographies

(For annual bibliographies, see PMLA and WAL.)

Primary Sources

Alberts, Bibliography (reprinted) 15:1
Brophy, Prose of RJ 46:14
Harmsen and Bennett, RJ translations 19:2
Jeffers bibliography proposed 1:1, 2:1, 6:1
Jeffers D., RJ in foreign translation 24:3
Kafka, Published writings, 1903-11 53:47
Lawrynowicz, RJ Polish translations 50:7
Rodgers, Checklist of RJ's poetical writings since 1934 48:11-24
White, RJ checklist, 1954-65 (The Serif) 20:3

 

Secondary Sources

Boswell, RJ and critics 1912-83 69:5, 70:3
Brophy, Dissertations at Occidental College Library 24:1; Theses at Occidental College Library 25:4; Scholarly Resources (series) 33:11
Etulain, Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature65:3 Nolte, Checklist of RJ 26:1
Vardamis, Critical Reputation of RJ (1972) 34:3, 83:2

 

Biographical Materials in RJN

(See also sequential list, 87:26; biographers Bennett, Cronon, Karman, and Stegner; entries in library handbooks, 64:6-7; and psychological readings listed in Themes.)

Barkan, P "J Family" 53:26
Brinnin, M. "An Awkward Meeting" 66:4
Brophy, R. "Murphy Masterbuilder" 78:24; "UJ and Mabel D. Luhan" 77:25
Carpenter, B. "J Family" 69:17
Cerwin, H. "Notes on RJ" 33:3
Chaplin, C. "Chaplin on Jeffers" 37:2
Commins, D. "Poetry & Politics" 72:10
Cooper/Klein M. Jeffers Observed 61:7
Dewitt, J. "Mrs. Nash of Hermosa" 52:27
Dickie, J. "RJ: Remembrance" 79:14
Eaton, D. "Observations on Meeting" 69:5
Eherhart, R. "Tribute and Appreciation" 27:6
Everson,W "Astrological Note" 36:17; "Everson on J: A Sighting" 97:19 Ghormley, W "Lineal Data of Joseph Jeffers" 54:3
Hall, I. "Life at Tor House" 88:4
Harmsen, T "RJ Student at Occidental" 49:21
Hinkley, V "Memoir" 82:9
Hughes, L. "Langston Hughes on RJ" 55:28
lngam County. "UJ: A Note" 75:7
Jeffers, B. "A Sullivan-Doyle Perspective" 100:12
Jeffers, D. "Note on Tor House" 42:6; "Portraits of RJ" 45:7; "Some Biographical Corrigenda" 35:4; "Some Notes on Building Tor House" 53:8-18; "Tor HouseFurnishings" 53:13 Jeffers, G. "Poem Source Anecdotes" 84:4; "Vignettes of My Father" 76:6 ["Foreword" to RJ: A Portrait] 63:6]; "A Window into the J Social Life" 100:8
Jeffers, U. "Tor House Planting" 66:16
Jordan-Smith, P "Reminiscence" 66:3
Kafka, R. "Stone Mason: More Corrigenda" 51:5
Karman, J. "Note on William H. Jeffers" 42:9
Kelso, C. "Eulogy: William H. Jeffers" 43:6
Klein, H. "Simenon: Quasi-Encounter" 66:5
Klein, M. Jeffers Observed 61:7
Landau, R. "J and Krishnamurti" 89:7
Larsen, S and R. "Joseph Campbell and RJ" 89:10
Lehman, B. "Recollectons and Reminiscences" 63:12
Luhan, M. "Una & Robin" 81:5-32
Lyon, H. "J as Subject of Camera" 18:2, 88:8; "Little People of Santa Lucias" 48:7 Lyman, W "Memoir" 34:19
McWilliams, C. "Adamic and Jeffers" 86:1
Matthias, B. "RJ and Krishnamuro" 67:8
Moore, J. "Beginnings of Jeffers" 80:10
Powell, L. "RJ and His Garden" 80:4; "Two Diary Vignettes" 65:7
Ritchie, W "Some Recollections" 52:27
Rorty, J. "Memoir" 27:4
Rudnick, L. "M. D. Luhan and RJ" 49:21
Schwab, A. "J and Millay" 59:17
Shane, C. "Hamilton M. Jeffers"46:41
Times, L.A. "Una Kuster's Road Race" 52:7
Van Doren, M. "Memoir" 27:3
Western Theological Seminary. "W H. Jeffers: 43:11
Williams, J. "In the Poet's Path" 79:16
Willis, S. "A Memoir" 53:30

Books by RJ

 (See also Poems by RJ, Printers/Special Printings, and University Microfilms International: Books on Demand, 43:4, 48:3, 50:3.)

 

The Alpine Christ and Other Poems (Everson, editor) 34:2, 36:3, 38:2 Apology for Bad Dreams (Linden) 67:Z, 70:3
The Beginning and the End 1:2, 2:1, 3:1, 3, 16:2, 20:2
Brides of the South Wind (Everson, editor) 34:9
Californians (Everson, editor) 30:10
Cawdor: The Narrative Poem by RJ (Yolla Bolly Press) 64:3, 4, 70:.3 Cawdor/Medea (New Directions) 25:1, 27:1
The Collected Letters of RJ and UJ (Karman, in progress; Stanford) 76:3, 78:6, 82:4
The Collected Plays of RJ (Vaughn, in progress) 46:3
Collected Poems of RJ (proposed) 1:1, 6:2, 31:10
The Collected Poetry of RJ (Hunt, editor) 70:3
Dear Judas and Other Poems (Brophy, editor; Norton) 42:2, 45:4, 49:2 The Desert (Cheney, printer; Dawson's Book Shop) 47:3, 48:21
The Double Axe and Other Poems (Everson and Hotchkiss, editors; Norton) 42:2, 45:4, 49:2
Flagons and Apples (Cayucos) 28:2, 30:11; RJ's review of Grafton edition 47:8
From These Hills (Shears, proposed anthology) 79:3
Granite & Cypress (Everson; Lime Kiln) 41:3, 44:3
Headlands (RJ poems, Brower and Kauffman) 47:3, 48:2
In This Wild Water: The Suppressed Poems of RJ (Shebl, editor and commentator)   45:4, 47:7
J Country: The Seed Plots of RJ Poetry (Lyon, editor and photographer) 30:9
J Poems in Translation (Miura, translator) 69:4, 70:3, 71:4
Meditation on Saviors (Wilson, printer) 65:5
Mirrors (Ritchie, printer) 89:1
Not Man Apart: Lines from RJ (RJ poems; Sierra Club) 3:1, 4:2, 12:1, 25:3, 49:1;(Arrowood) 69:4
Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years (Folcroft) 26:1
Point Alma Venus (Kafka, editor) 46:3, 47:4
Point Lobos (Koch, printer, and Bussche, photographer) 70:5, 71:4, 76:10
The Primal Alliance: Earth and Ocean (RJ poems, Brower and Kauffman) 42:3, 47:3 Roan Stallion (Yolla Bolly) 82:2
RJ, Unterjochte Erde: Gedichte (Hesse, translator and commentator) 70:3
RJ: Poems and Contemporary Commentary (California State University at Long Beach) 53:2; see also Explications
RJ: Poetry and Response: A Centennial Tribute (Occidental College) 71:3; see also  Explications
RJ: Selected Poems (Vintage) 3:1, 12:1
RJ: Selected Poems: Centenary Selection (Carcanet Press) 70:3, 4,  71:16, 72:3
Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems by RJ (Hass, editor, with extensive introduction) 68:3, 70:3, 71:4, 11
The Selected Letters of RJ (Ridgeway, editor) 23:3, 49:2, 62:3
Shine, Perishing Republic: (Linden) 71:2
Songs and Heroes (Arundel) 75:2, 76:3, 78:9, 81:3
Themes in My Poems (Book Club of California) 74:14
Thurso's Landing, Dear Judas, and Other Poems (Random House) 45:5
Tor House Inscriptions (Stuart, editor) 75:2
Tragedy Has Obligations (Everson, commentator; Lime Kiln Press) 34:2, 36:3, 39:3
U and RJ: Two Early Letters to Hazel Pinkham (Tiger Press) 74:15
What Odd Expedients and Other Poems of RJ (Scott, editor and commentator; Archon/Shoestring Press) 57:3, 59:2
Where Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of U and RJ (Kafka, editor and commentator; Yolla Bolly) 69:1, 70:3
Whom Should I Write For (Ritchie, printer) 52:2
The Women at Point Sur (Hunt, editor; Norton) 42:2, 45:4, 49:2
The Women at Point Sur (Hotchkiss, commentator; Blue Oak Press) 41:4

 

Books in Print

  26:1, 33:1, 40:3, 41:3, 44:1, 46:2, 57:3, 64:4, 67:5, 70:3, 79:4, 92:6

University Microfilms International: Books on Demand (Selected Facsimiles of Texts by/on RJ) 43:4 48:1, 50:3, 53:5

 

Books on RJ Noted with Commentary

(See also Biographical Materials, Books Reviewed/Described, and Articles.)

Adamic, L. RJ: A Portrait 62:2, 70:3

Alberts, S. S. Bibliography of the Works of RJ 15:1

Antuninus, Brother. See W. Everson.

Ave Vale RJ 48:23

Bacchiega, E M. RJ: La Natura, La Scienza, La Poesia 56:3

Barretc Library: RJ: A Checklist 26:6

Beers, T "... a thousand graceful subtleties": Rhetoric in the Poetry of RJ  92:5, 95-96:3

Beilke, M. Shining Clarity: Man and God in the Works of RJ 46:2, 49:2, 3, 50:5, 54:2, 58:4 Bennett, M. The Stone Mason of Tor House 13:1, 35:4, 51:5

Boswell, J. RJ and the Critics 69:24

Brophy, R. Dimensions of a Poet 91:4; RJ (Western Writers Series) 43:3; RJ: Myth, Ritual and Symbol in His Narrative Poems 34:2, 36:4, 42:3, 45:4; RJ: Poems and Contemporary  Commentary 53:3; RJ: Poetry and Response: A Centennial Tribute 71:3; The RJN: A Jubliee Gathering 73:2, 75:2

Brower, D. Headlands 47:3, Not Man Apart 49:1, 69:4; The Primal Alliance: Earth and Ocean 42:3

Carpenter, E. RJ (Twayne's U.S. Authors) 10:1, 15:1

Cerwin, H. In Search of Something: The Memoir of a Public Relation Man (anecdotes and photos) 47:2

Coffin, A. RJ: Poet of Inhumanism 28:2, 29:4

Dotson, J. The Enduring Voice: A Tor House Journal 71:4

Eshelman, W. Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing, 1938-1946: William Everson and Lawrence Clark Powell 91:3

Everson, W. Archetype West: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region 46:2; The Excesses of God: RJ as a Religious Figure 69:3, 70:4; The Poet is Dead: A Memorial for RJ 6:2;79:9; RJ: Fragments of an Older Fury 22:1, 23:3

Gilbert, R. Shine, Perishing Republic: RJ and the Tragic Sense in Modern Poetry 24:2 Glenn, C. Renate Ponsold/Robert Motherwell: Apropos RJ 59:2, 60:4

Harmon, R. The First Editions of RJ 53:5 I layman, L. R. Collecting J 67:3, 70:4

Hotchkiss, W J: The Sivaistic Vision 40:3, 44:2

Hunt, T. The Collected Poetry of RJ (apparatus) 70:3

Jarman, M. Iris (narrative poem on RJ themes) 84:1

Jeffers, D. Some Notes on the Building of Tor House 54:3, 56:Z, 5, 881; The Stones of Tor House 54:3, 56:2, 5

Jeffers, G. Memories of Tor House 88:2

Karman, J. Critical Essays on RJ 79:8; RJ: Poet of California 69:3, 70:4, 92:6, 95-96:4

Klein, M. and H. Jeffers Observed 67:3, 70:4

Koch, P Point Lobos 70:5, 75:2, 76:10, 92:6

Luhan, M. Una and Robin 45:4, 46:5

Lyon, H. J Country: The Seed Plots of RJ Poetry 30:9

Monterey area, 37 books on. 43:4

Nolte, W The Merrill Checklist of RJ 26:1; The Merrill Guide to RJ 26:1; Rock and Hawk: RJ and the Romantic Agony 49:2, 51:3, 52:5, 53:6

Ritchie, W. A Book of Gaelic Airs (designer) 77:2; I Remember RJ 52:4; J: Some Recollections of RJ 50:3; The Poet and The Printers 56:4; Years Touched With Memory 89:1

Seubert, E. RJ: Poet For an Age of Violence 67:3

Shebl, W. In This Wild Water: The Suppressed Poems of RJ 44:2, 45:4_, 47:8

Slawek, T. The Dark Glory, RJ and His Philosophy of Man, Earth & Things 78:5

Smith, A. The Flight of The Hawk: An Introduction to RJ 54:3

Soldofsky, A. Quarry West (special issue on RJ) 75:2, 78:14

Squires, R. The Loyalties of RJ 2:3

Strauss, B. Fragmente Der Undeutlichkeit 77:3

Stuart, G. Tor House Inscriptions 75:2

Thesing, W. RJ and a Galaxy of Writers 95-96:4

Thorpe, D. The Wings Still 62:3

Vaughn, E. The Drama and Theater of RJ 56:5

Vardamis, A. Critical Reputation of RJ 34:3, 83:2

White, K. Coast Opposite Humanity-An Essay on the Poetry of RJ 51:4

Zaller, R. Centennial Essays for RJ 78:8, 79:2; The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of RJ  46:4; Tributes From His Peers: Elegies for RJ 67:2; 76:2

 

On Audio Cassettes

Brophy The Works of RJ 41:6, 43:3

Everson RJ 4 3: 3

 

Books Reviewed/Described

 

Academic, L. RJ, A Portrait 01:6

Beers, T. “…a thousand graceful subtleties": Rhetoric in the Poetry of RJ 92:5, 95-96:3 Bednar, K Our Garden, Our Friend 91:3

Beilke, M Shining Clarity: God and Man in the Works of RJ 49:3

Bly, R. News of the Universe 62:5

Boswell, J . RJ and the Critics: 1912-1983 69:24

Brand, S. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built 95-96:5

Brophy, R.  RJ (Western Writers Series) 43:3; RJ: Dimensions of a Poet 91:4; RJ: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol in His Narrative Poems 36:4, 45:4; RJ: Poet in Collection (checklist) 42:5

Brower, D. Headlands 47: 3; Not Man Apart 49:1,69:4; The Primal Alliance: Earth and Ocean 42:3

Bukowski, C. Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 88:3

Burke, J. Regional Perspectives  (contains "Archetype West" by W Everson) 46:2 l

Coffin_, A. RJ: Poet of Inhumanism 29:4

Clark, D. Monterey County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary 92:4 Dardis, T. Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright 95-96:5

Dickinson, C. Myths on the Modern Stage 28:2

Erisman, F.and R. Etulain, Fifty Western Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook  62:3

Eshelman, W. Take hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing, 1838-1946: William Everson' and Lawrence Clark Powell 97:19

Everson, W. Archetype West 46:2; The Excesses of God: RJ as a Religious Figure 75:20; RJ: Fragments of an Older Fury 23:3; The Poet is Dead: A Memorial for RJ 6:2, 93-94:97; Point Lobos (introduction) 92:6

Falck, C. RJ: Selected Poems: The Centenary Edition 71:16

Glenn, C. Renate Ponsold/Robert Motherwell: Apropos RJ 59:2, 60:4

Hass, R. Rock and Hawk 77:13

Hunt, T Collected Poetry of RJ 79:10

Jeffers, D. The Stones of Tor House 87:1

Jeffers, G. Memories of Tor House 87:1

Jeffers, R. The Alpine Christ and Other Poems 36:3, 38:2; The Beginning and the End 2:1, 3:1; Brides of the South Wind 41:3; Dear Judas and Other Poems 45:4; The Double Axe and Other Poems 45:4; Californians 30:10; Cawdor (Yolla Bolly Press) 64:4; Cawdor/Medea (New Directions) 25:1, 27:1; The Collected Poetry of RJ 70:3; Flagons and Apples 28:2, 47:8; Granite & Cypress 44:3; In This Wild Water: The Suppressed Poems of RJ 47:7; Jeffers Country: Seed Plots of J Poetry 30:9; Not Man Apart: Lines from RJ (Sierra Club) 25:3, (Arrowood Press) 69:4; Point Alma Venus 47:4; Point Lobos 92:6; Roan Stallion (Yolla Bolly Press) 82:2; RJ: Selected Poems 3:1, 12:1; RJ: Selected Poet The Centenary Edition 70:3, 71:16, 72:3; Rock and Hawk: A Selection of  Shorter Poems 71:11, 77:13; The Selected Letters of RJ 23:3, 49:2, 62:3; Shine, Perishing Republic (Linden) 71:2; Songs and Heroes 78:9; Tragedy Has Obligations 36:3; What Odd Expedients and Other Poems of RJ 57:3; Where Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of U and RJ 69:3, 74:15; The Women at Point Sur 45:4

Jeffers, U. A Book of Gaelic Airs 77:2

Jeffers, U. and R. Two Early Letters to Hazel Pinkham 74:15

Kafka, R. Point Alma Venus 47:4; Where Shall I Take You To: The Love Letters of U and RJ 69:3

Karman, J. Critical Essays on RJ 79:8; RI: Poet of California 70:4, 92:6

Klein, M. Jeffers Observed 67:3, 70:4

Luhan, M. Una and Robin 46:5

Lyon, It. Jeffers Country: The Seed Plots of RJ Poetry 30:9

Modern Language Association. American Literary Manuscripts 51:55

McDermott, E. Euripides' Medea 87:5

Nolte, W. Rock and Hawk: RJ and the Romantic Agony 51:3

Rodgers, C. RJ Collection: University of Houston 42:4

Ridgeway, A. The Selected Letters of RJ 12:2, 23:3

Ritchie, W Years Touched With Memory 89:1

Shebl, J. In This Wild Water: The Suppressed Poems of RJ 47:7

Soldofsky, A. Quarry West (special issue on RJ) 78:14

Strauss, B. Fragmente Der Undeutlichkeit 77:3

Taylor, J. G. The Literature of the American West 28:3; The Literary History of the West 66:2

Thesing, W. RJ and a Galaxy of Writers 95-96:3

Tor House Foundation. Tea at Tor House (recipe book) 86:2

Vardamis, A. The Critical Reputation of RJ: A Bibliographical Study 34:3

Vickery, J. The Literary Impact of the Golden Bough 49:7

Wyatt, D. The Fall into Eden: Landscape and Imagination in California 87:7

Zaller, R. Centennial Essays for RJ 78:8, 79:2; The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of RJ 63:7 The Tribute of His Peers: Elegies for RJ 78:12

 

 

Centennial, 1887-1987 (See also RJN 66-70)

 

Supported by an NEH grant, Occidental College completed a year's spectrum of events involving a fall 1986 lecture series, including a panel with Klein, Powell, and Ritchie; an undergraduate essay contest: "The Relevance of RJ in 1987"; a fall semester English Department Jeffers seminar with a Big Sur field trip; a January 1987 symposium on the poet's birthday, featuring scholars from across the country; a traveling exhibit to 11 libraries of RJ editions and memorabilia; a Clapp Library Jeffers Collection exhibit of manuscripts & first editions, a Coons Center art exhibit of Monterey-Carmel-Big Sur landscapes  an evening panel of renowned poets Everson, Milosz, and Snyder; a Reader's Theater presentation of poems read by Occidental alumni and alumnae; an evening of dance  featuring Jane Brown Company's Medea; a May premiere of Occidental College musicologist  Richard Grayson's "Continent's End," a cantata on RJ's poems "Tor House," " I be Bloody Sire,” “Joy,^” “Birds," and "Continent's End"; publication of a student booklet of explications opposite RJ poems, Ijl: Poetry & Response (see also Chapters of Books Noted and Explications); an anthology of articles from the first 25 years of RJN-Robinson Jeffers Newsletter: A Jubliee Gathering; and the RJ: Poet Centennial Exhibition booklet of 47 pages.

The Centennial was also celebrated with a joint Carmel and San Jose State University fall festival (70:1) and special issues of American Poetry (70:5), The American Poetry Review (71 :1), The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin (71:2), and The Quarterly Newsletter of the Book Club of California (71:2). Also, the Sierra Club's 1987 Engagement Calendar featured quotes from RJ's poems (67:1), and Poetry LA featured the Charles Bukowski potent tribute, "Jeffers" (70:4, 72:30).

          There were programs and exhibits at the Library of Congress (69:2), California State  University Long Beach (69:2), University of Utah (69:4), Virginia Wesleyan College (69:2), and the Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco (67:2), as well as a traveling exhibit of Leigh Wiener's RJ photographs (77:4).

             Books published: Shine Perishing Republic (Linden), 71:2; Point Lobos (Koch and Bussche), 70:5 5; RJ, Unterjochte Erde: Gedichte (Hesse), 70:3; RJ: Selected Poems: The Centenary Selection  (Falck; Carcanet), 70:3; Where Shall I take You To: The Love Letters of Uand RJ (Kafka; Yolla Bolly), 69:3; The Enduring Voice: An Interpretation of the Life and Work RJ (Dotson), 70:3; RJ: Poet of California (Karman), 72:4; and Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems by RJ (Hass), 71:11 and 77:13.

 

Chapters of Books Noted

(Selected and representative.)

 

Boyers, K. "A Sovereign Voice: The Poetry of RJ" in Mazzaro, Modern American Poetry: Essays in Criticism  29:1

Brophy, R. "RJ" in Erisman and Etulain, eds., Fifty Western Writers 62:3; "RJ" in Taylor, The Literary History of the American West 69:3; "RJ in Centennial" in Harmsen, ed., RJ: The Man. The Poet 68:2, 3, 75:6;  "Man and Poet" and "A World Apart" in Occidental 70:5; "Quintessential Jeffers" in Linden, Shine, Perishing Republic 71:2; "Everson, the Art of Reading and RJ" in Perspectives on William Everson 83:2

Cerwin, H. Anecdotes and photos in his In Search of Something: The Memoir of a Public Relation Man 47:2

DeMott, R. "RJ's `Tamar' in French, The Twenties: Fiction Poetry & Drama 44:3

Dickinson, H. "RJ: The Twilight of Man" in his Myth on the Modern Stage 29:3

Diggory, T. "The Inhuman Self: RJ" in his Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of Self  67:4

Elder, J. "The Covenant of Loss" in Imagining the Earth: Poetry and the Vision of Mimic 71:5

Eshelman, W. Anecdotes in his Take Hold Upon the Future: Letters on Writers and Writing 1938-1946, William Everson and Lawrence Clark Powell 91:3

Everson, W "Introduction" to Cawdor/Medea (New Directions) 25:1, 27:1; "Archetype West" in Gordon, Regional Perspectives 27:1, 46:2; "Afterword" to Tragedy Has Obligations 36:4

Gilliam, H. "The Genius Loci" in his Creating Carmel 77:3

Gioia, D. "Strong Counsel" in his Can Poetry Matter? 73:11

Glenn, Constance. In Apropos RI: Ponsold/Motherwell/Jeffers 59:2, 60:4

Hamburger, K. "Phaedra" in her From Sophocles to Sartre: Figures from Greek Tragedy, Classical and Modern 31:3

Hunt, T. Introduction ["Nature, Narrative, and Knowing'] in Roan Stallion (Yolla Bolly Press) 82:2

Jeffers, G. "Foreword" to Adamic, RJ: A Portrait 63:6, 76:6

Littlejohn, D. "RJ" in his Interruptions 31:4

Messer, R. "J's Inhumanism: A Vision of the Self" in Crowe, ed., Itinerary: Criticism Essays on California Writers 52:5

Milosz, C. "Carmel" in Visions from San Francisco Bay 64:2

Nathan, L., and A. Quinn. "J's Poetry as Defining Experience" in their The Poets Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz 82:2

Powell, L. C. "RJ" in Westways (collected in California Classics, Capra Press, 1989) 24:1

Power, Sister M. J. "RJ Takes God to Task" in Poets at Prayer 33:2

Rodgers, C. "RJ" in First Printings of American Authors: Contributions Toward Descriptive Checklists, Volume 3 51:4, 57:2, 60:2

Rolfe, L. "RJ: The Lost LA Years" in Literary LA: Reminiscences About Famous Writers Who Have Lived and Worked in Southern California 55:2, 56:3, 58:3

Rudnick, L. P "American Gothic: M. D. Luhan and the RJs" in her Mabel Dodge Luhan
New Woman, New World 67:3

Sanderson, J., and I. Gopnik. "The Cretan Woman" in their Phaedra and Hippolytus Myth and Dramatic Form 46:1

Shucard, A., F Moramarco, and W Sullivan. "The Visionary Company" in their Modern American Poetry, 1865-1950 78:3

Slawek, T "A Hammer of Philosophy: The Scene of Violence in Nietzsche and J" in Violence/Intolerance/Literature 84:2; The Continent's End': Border as Figure of Thought in RJ's Poetry" in Boundary of Borders 84:2

Squires, J. "RJ: The Anatomy of Violence" in Owens, ed., Modern American Poetry: Essays in Criticism 46:3

Temple, S. "The Towering Poet of the Tower" in Carmel by the Sea: From Aborigines to the Coastal Commission 73:2

Vickery, J. In his The Literary Impact of the Golden Bough 49:7

Wyatt, D. "Jeffers, Snyder & The Ended World" in his The Fall Into Eden, Landscape and Imagination in California 73:3, 87:7

Zaller, R. "The Giant H^and: William Everson on RJ" in Perspectives on William Everson 83:2

 

Article Chapters in 11 Collections

 

RJ: Poems and Contemporary Commentary. Long Beach: California State University, 1979 (53:2—13 poems, six respondents, and 13 explications; S. York: Excerpt from "Margrave"; T. Ressler: "Shakespeare's Grave," "Roan Stallion"; R. Ballister: "Natural Music," "A Redeemer"; L. French: "Science," "Shine, Perishing Republic," "The Treasure"; R. Peevey: "Love the Wild Swan," "Signpost," "Hurt Hawks"; R. Brophy: Introduction, "Tamar V," "Salmon-Fishing."

 

American  Poetry, Fall 1987, special issue (70:5)-T. Beers "RJ & The Canon"; E. Hesse: "Poetry as a Means of Discovery"; W. Everson: "Letters on J"; D. Morris, "The Practical Importance  of Jeffers"; J.Hollander: "On J: An Interview"; W. Stafford, J. Haines, R. Morgan, G. Haslam, R. Peters, E. Chappell, and B. Adcock: "On Reading Jeffers."

 

The American Poetry Review, November-December 1987, special issue (71:2)-RJ's ‘Home’, A Recently Uncovered Poem" (336-line narrative, originally intended for The Women at Point Sur), with introduction and notes by T. Hunt; R. Hass: "On J's Life and Work."

 

The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Number 40, 1987, dedicated to RJ (71:2)—D. Turner: "RJ at Texas" ; R. Kafka. "Unpublished Manuscripts in the RJ Collection at the HRHRC";  E. Nickerson: "Freedom, Democracy, and Poetry: What RJ Really Said at the Library of Congress."

 

RJ: Poetry and Response, A Centennial Tribute. Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1987  (71:3)--10 poems and seven respondents; B. Nichols: “To the House': Ecologic Authenticity ": B. Salzman: "'Continent's End': Cycle & Equinox"; D. Kartub: "'Divinely Superfluous III, Beauty': J's Love of Landscape"; S.Coombs: "'Fog': Nirvana Rejected,” “’Hands’: A formal Reciprocity"; L. Maddox: "`Still the Mind Smiles': Vantage Points"; D Shuff: ‘”Evening Ebb’s: An Ambience," "'The Hanged God': Prophet of the Self-­Tortured God”; J. Heuter: "'Boats in a Fog': Beauty as Participation," "'Shine, Perishing Republic': A Patriot's Lament"; R. Brophy: Introduction, Bibliography.

 

Brophy, R., ed The RJ Newsletter: A Jubilee Gathering 1961-1988. Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1988 (75:2)--Preface; Introduction; RJ: "Whom Should I Write For?" H. Klein: "The Poet Who Sp_oke of It"; K. Bednar: "RJ in Czechoslovakia"; H. Lyon: “Jeffers as a Subject for H. Lyon's Camera"; R. Brophy: "Tor House Library: J's Books"' M Van Doren, J. Rorty, and R. Eberhart: "Three Memoirs of RJ"; R. Brophy, "Topography and the J Narrative Scene"; W. Ritchie: "Theodore Lilienthal, RJ and the Quercus Press"; E. Nickerson: J. Scholarly Materials: Library of Congress"; M. McAllister: "Meaning and Paradox in J's  T. Hunt: "The Interactive Voice of J's 'Hungerfield'"; R Brophy " The Prose of RJ: An Annotated Checklist"; C. Rodgers: "Checklist of RJ's Poetical Writings Since 1934"; E. Vaughn: "'Dear Judas'--Time and the Dramatic Structure of the Dream"; D. Jeffers: "Some Notes on the Building of Tor House"; P. Barkan: "The J Family as I Knew Them"; R. Kafka: "RJ's Published Writings, 1903-1911"; "UJ, Correspondent: Letters to Hazel Pinkham, 1912-1920"; Czeslaw Milosz: "To Robinson Jeffers"; L. Powell: "Delicieuse Ville, Melancolique et Douce: Dijon, 1930-32"; B. Lehman: "Recollections and Reminiscences"; D. Gioia: "Strong Counsel."

 

Zaller, R., ed. Centennial Essays For RJ. Newark: University of Delaware, 1991 (78:8) Introduction; H. Gregory: "Poet Without Critics: A Note on RJ"; R. Zaller: "RJ, American Poetry, and a Thousand Years"; A. Vardamis: “The Critical Reception of RJ”. R. Boyers: "A Sovereign Voice: The Poetry of RJ"; T. Hunt, "Different Throats ... One Language: The Voice of RJ"; D. Morris: "Reading RJ: Formalism, Post-Structuralism and the Inhumanist Turn"; W. Everson: "Prefaces to J"; Coffin: "Bricolage and J's Narrative of the Twenties"; R. Butterfield: "Loving to Death: A Consideration of the 'The Loving Shepherdess"'; R. Brophy: "The Emasculation Syndrome among J's Protagonists"; D. Hymes: "Jeffers and Native American Poetry"; F. Carpenter: "The Verbal Magnificence of RJ"; E. Nickerson: "The Politics of RJ"; C. Milosz: "RJ."

 

Soldofsky, A., ed. Quarry West, Number 27, RJ: A Symposium. Santa Cruz: Porter College, University of California, 1990 (78:14)-). Houston: "Necessary Ecstasy: An Afterword to 'Cawdor'”; C. Kiser. "RJ"; D. Gioia: "The Coming J Revival"; T. Beers: "RJ's Post Modern Poetry"; P. Murphy: "RJ's Heroes: Divided and Resisting"; T. Hunt "Once Upon a Manuscript"; S. Blumenthal "Notes from a Filmmaker's Journal"; D. Wakoski: "RJ: American Socrates"; A. Soldofsky: "Anti-Modemism and a Thousand Years"; K. Hearle: "An Interview with William Everson."

 

Karman, James, ed. Critical Essays on RJ. Boston: Hall, 1990 (79:8)-An extensive introduction tracing the responses to successive RJ volumes is accompanied by these essays: F. Dell, "Shell-Shock & the Poetry of RJ"; L. Eiseley, "Music of the Mountain", I Carpenter, "Values of RJ"; Highet, "An American Poet"; Rexroth, "In Defense of Jeffers"; L. Powell, "Double Marriage of RJ"; Nolte, "RJ as Didactic Poet"; W. Everson "Introduction" to Cawdor/Medea; R. Brophy, "J's `Cawdor' and the Hippolytus Story"; T. Hunt, "RJ: The Modernist Poet as Antimodernist"; R. Zaller, "Spheral Eternity: Time, Form, and Meaning in RJ"; and others.

 

Brophy, R., ed. RJ: Dimensions of a Poet. New York: Fordham University Press, 1995 (95-96:4)--R. Brophy: "RJ: Poet of Carmel-Sur"; A. Vardamis: "In the Poet's Lifetime", R. Zaller, "RJ and the Uses of History"; T. Beers, "Telling the Past and Living the Present: 'Thurso's Landing' and the Epic Tradition"; T. Hunt, "J's `Roan Stallion' and the Narrative of Nature"; D. Rothman, "'Divinely Superfluous Beauty': RJ's Versecraft of the Sublime"; Panel: "RJ and the Female Archetype"; K. Glaser: "Desire, Death, and Domesticity in J's Pastorals of Apocalypse"; A. Soldofsky, "Nature and the Symbolic Order: The Dialogue Between Czeslaw Milosz and RJ; Everson, "All Flesh Is Grass"; Review of J Scholarship"; "Works by RJ: A Chronological Listing."

 

Thesing, W, ed. RJ and a Galaxy of Writers. University of South Carolina Press, 1995 (95-96:4, 7)—W. Thesing: "Foreword"; T Hunt: "Introduction"; N. Bowers: "J and Merwin: The World beyond Words"; T. Diggory: "The Momentum of Syntax in the Poems of RJ”; D. Morris: "Critical Orthodoxy and Inhumanist Poetics: The Question of Technique in J, Dickey, Mallarme, and Stevens"; G. Allen: "Passionate Detachment in the Lyrics of J and Yeats"; K. Norwood: "'Enter and Possess': J, Frost, and the Borders of Self"; C. Falck: "RJ: American Romantic?"; P. Murphy: "RJ, Gary Snyder, and the

Problem of Civilization"; G. Van Ness: “’The Lonely Self-Watchful Passion': Narrative and the Poetic Role of RJ and James Dickey"; W Cox: "RJ and the Conflict of Christianity"; M. McCormack: "The Women of RJ and T S. Eliot: Mythical Parallels in 'Give Your Heart to the Hawks' and The Family Reunion"; A. Brasher: "'Their Beauty Has More Meaning': Transcendental Echoes in J's Inhumanist Philosophy of Nature"; C. Bedient: "RJ, D. H. Lawrence, and the Erotic Sublime"; T Hunt, ed.: "J and the Modern(ist) Terrain: Competing and/or Complementary Poetics? A Panel Discussion with Charles Altieri, Terence Diggory, Albert Gelpi, and James E. Miller, Jr."

Checklists

(See also Exhibits, Manuscript Collections, Printers/Special Printings.)

 

1:2 San Francisco Public Library
6:2 Alabama

19:1 Gleeson Library Associates of the University of San Francisco (Brophy)

19:2 Translations

20:3 The Serif

23:3 Translations

26:4 Bartlett collection of Jeffersiana at California State Polytechnic College

26:6 RJ Collection, Barrett Library, University of Virgina

39:1 Lilienthal RJ Collection at Occidental College

40:2 Powell's published writings (University of California at Los Angeles)

40:4 Cayucos Books archives

41:2 California State University Library, Long Beach

42:4 RJ Collection, University of Houston, and California State University Library, Long Beach

43:2 Southern Oregon State College Library

43:2 "A Selection of Works of Literature ... for the ninetieth Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association" (Howell)

46:14 RJ prose

48:11 RJ poetical writings since 1934 (supplement to Alberts)

51:4 First Printings of American Authors: Contributions Toward Descriptive Checklists, Volume 3 (Gale Research)

53:5 The First Editions of RJ 53:5

67:3 Collecting Jeffers

69:2 "RJ: The Man, The Poet" photo exhibit at California State University Library, Long Beach

Collectors Corner/Booksellers

(See also Printers/Special Printings and Checklists.)

 

Collectors Corner

26:7 (proposed); 31:1, 32:1, 35:2 (Mohr); 41:4 (Serendipity Books); 43:5 (Hayman); 44:3 (Magee); 44:6 (list of rare book dealers); 45:5; 47:4; 50:3; 55:2 (Argonaut Bookshop offering three Millay letters to RJ and UJ); 58:1 (Gotham Book Mart catalog featuring Alberts collection); 58:1 (more on Argonaut Bookshop Millay letters); 60:1; 83:1 (broadsides and keepsakes for sale); 89:2 (reader interest)

 

Booksellers

See antiquarian booksellers directories, especially for Northern and Southern California. Examples: Argonaut, Argosy, Bennett & Marshall, Dawson, Gotham, Howell, International Bkfinders (Mohr); Johnson, Joseph the Provider (Sipper); Win Pieper, Sand Dollar, Serendipity (Howard), Spencer Moore.

 

Colleges/Universities/High Schools

(A sampling; see also Checklists, Exhibits, Festivals, and Manuscript Collections.)

 

California State University, Hayward 53:4

California State University, Long Beach 39:2, 41:2

Free University, Salt Lake City 26:5

Hosei University (Tokyo) 20:1

Monterey Peninsula College 24:2, 25:2

North Texas State University 40:2

Occidental College 1:1, 11:1, 39:1, 58:2

Portland State College 20:1

San Francisco State College 16:1, 18:1

Southern Oregon College 20:1, 43:1

University of California at Berkeley 4:2

University of California, Santa Cruz 41:2

University of Kansas 41:2

University of San Francisco 25:1

University of Utah 39:1

 

Presentations in High Schools

39:1, 42:4, 43:3, 47:1, 69:4

 

 

Courses/Syllabi/Teaching

 

3:2 E Drew, SUNY Buffalo

4:1 J. Hart, University of California, Berkeley

10:1 J. Brophy, Jr., elementary classes, Buffalo

10:1 E Drew, SUNY Buffalo

26:5 R. Campbell, University of Utah

26:5 E. Fitzpatrick, Free University, Utah

26:6 R. Brophy, California State University, Long Beach

39:2 R. Brophy, California State University, Long Beach

41:2 G. Rumrill, University of California, Santa Cruz

46:1 B. Nadel, Williams College
46:1 E.Vaughn, Bowling Green University
50:2 J.Baird, North Texas State University
52:3 E. Fitzpatrick-Grimm, Monterey Community College
53:4 University of California, Berkeley
53:4 E. Fitzpatrick-Grimm, Tor House Foundation
58:3 E. Fitzpatrick-Grimm, Monterey Peninsula College
86:3 R. Brophy, California State University, Long Beach
88:14 R. Brophy, California State University, Long Beach

 

Teaching

39:2 Senior seminars in RJ at California State University, Long Beach

95-96:2 Asilomar conference for teachers

 

 

 

 

Dissertations

(See also Theses.)

 

Adams, "The Poetry of RJ: A Reinterpretation and Re-evaluation," University of Denver, 1967 24:5

Barachi, "The Sexual Imagery in RJ's Narrative Poetry," New York University, 1969 29:2

Becker, "The Moment of Vision in W B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T S. Eliot, and RJ, University of California, Berkeley, 1980 61:6

Beers, "Interpretive Schema and Literary Response," University of Southern California, 1986, 71:8

Benton, "An Interpretative Analysis of RJ's The Women at Point Sur," University of Oklahoma, 1967 24:5

Blacker, "Primal Conflict and Modern American Long Narrative Poetry," Case Western Reserve University, 1984 67:7

Breen, "Symbolic Action in the Oral Interpretation of RJ's 'Roan Stallion,"' Northwestern, 1950 24:6

Brophy, "Structure, Symbol, and Myth in Selected Narratives of RJ," University of North Carolina, 1966 24:5

Cherry, "An Analysis of the Major Characters of Selected Long Poems by RJ as Reflections of the Author's Philosophy and Poetic Theory," University of South Carolina, 1973 39:4

Coffin, "Ideological Patterns in the Work of RJ," University of Wisconsin, 1965 24:6 Dickson, "The Destructive Mother in Twentieth-Century American Drama," SUNY Stonybrook, 1986 77:9

Dougherty, "The Annihilative Vision: Craftsmanship and Dramatic Action in the Narratives of RJ," Miami University, 1970 28:3

Edwards, "'Putting on the Greeks': Euripidean Tragedy and the Twentieth Century American Theatre," Universuity of Colorado, Boulder, 1987 77:10

Fairbanks, "The Impact of the Wild on H. D. Thoreau, Jack London, and RJ," University of Otago, New Zealand, 1966 24:Z, 45:9

Francis, "'Inhumanism' in the Poetry of RJ and Wallace Stevens," University of Madras, 1980 63:8

Gill, "RJ: The Greatest Beauty," Pennsylvania State University, 1979 57:5

Glaser, "Journeys into the Border Country: The Making of Nature and Home in the Poetry of RJ and Mary Oliver," University of California, Berkeley 85:1

Gundy, "1 and Me Above and in All Things: Versions of Self in Modern Poetry,"
 Indiana University, 1983 77:8

Hotchkiss, "The Sivaistic Vision: Art and Theme in RJ," University of Oregon. 1974 40:5

Hrubesky, "RJ-An Inverted Whitman," Kansas State University, 197131:4

Johnston, "Reinventing the Metaphors: Toward an Ecological Aesthetics in the Writings of RJ, Kenneth Rexroth, and Gary Snyder," University of California, Davis, 1988 86:5

Karman, "Toward a New Bethlehem: RJ's Prophetic Re-Vision of Life," Syracuse University, 1976 45:5

Kiley, "RJ: The Short Poems," University of Pittsburgh, 1957 24:6

Lucas, "The Religious Dimension of Twentieth-Century British and American Literature," Northern Illinois University, 1980 77:6

McDowell, "Finding Tongues in Trees: Dialogical and Ecological Landscape in Henry David Thoreau, RJ, and Leslie Marmon Silko," University of Oregon, 1992 90:4

Morris, "Literature and Environment: The Inhumanist Perspective," University of Washington, 1984 71:9

Moscop, "'The Thunder of the Wings': The Sonnets of RJ, " University of Mississippi, 1988 74:3

Murphy, "The Verse Novel: Dialogic Studies of a Modem Poetic Genre," University of California, Davis, 1986 89:5

Nadel, "The Religious Vision of RJ: The Human Problem and the Transhuman Solution," University of Chicago 46:5

Nickerson, "RJ, Poet of Apocalypse," SUNY Albany, 1973 29:2, 30:11, 39:5

Nuwer, "The Influence of Henry Adams and RJ on Walter Van Tilburg Clark," University of Nevada 39:3

Parker, "RJ: A Study of the Phenomena of Human Conscioousness," Pennsylvania State University, 1970 31:3

Plott, "Feasting Gods: The Early Narrative Poems of RJ," Harvard University, 1984 67:6

Powell, "An Introduction to RJ," University of Dijon, 1932 24:5

Quigley, "The Ground of Resistance: Nature and Power in Emerson, Melville, Jeffers, and Snyder," Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1990 86:6

Redinger, "The Poetic Dramas of RJ," University of South Carolina, 1971 28:3

Ridgeway, "The Letters of RJ: A Record of Four Friendships: Correspondence with
George Sterling, Albert Bender, Benjamin De Casseres, Mark Van Doren," Bowling Green State University, 1966 24:7

Rivers, "Astronomy and Physics in British and American Poetry, 1920-1960,"
University of South Carolina, 1967 24:2, 45:9

Rothman, "The Whitmanian Poets and the Origin of Open Form," New York University, 1992 86:7

Rudnick, "The Expurgated Self: A Critical Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan," Brown University, 1977 49:2

Scharton, "A Contextual Analysis of Prosody in Selected Narrative Poems of RJ," Kansas State University, 1978 53:46

Scott, "RJ's Poetic Use of Post-Copernican Science," SUNY Buffalo, 1964 24:7

Sharon, "The Tension of the Mind: RJ's Rhetoric of Violence," University of California, Berkeley, 1988 74:3

Shebl, "In This Wild Water: The Biography of Some Unpublished Manuscripts by RJ,  1887-1962," University of the Pacific, 1914 43:5

Shields, "The Divided Mind of RJ," Duke University, 1972 37:3

Spiese, "RJ's Aesthetic Theory and Practice," University of New Mexico, 1966 24:7

Squires, "RJ and the Doctrine of Inhumanism," Harvard University, 1952 24:8

Stephens, "The Narrative and Dramatic Poetry of RJ: A Critical Study," University of Southern California, 1953 24:8

Turlish, "Story Patterns from Greek and Biblical Sources in the Poetry of RJ," University of Michigan, 1971 32:2

Vardamis, "The Critical Reputation of RJ," Columbia University, 1970 37:3

Weedin, "RJ: The Achievement of His Narrative Verse," Comell University, 1967 24:8

Wolfe, "The Heart and Rage of RJ," New York University 58:4

Wolfskill, "The 'Modem Temper': The Problem of Rationalism in the Works of Emest
Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, and RJ," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980 61:4

Yozzo "In Illo Tempore, ab Origine: Violence and Reintegration in the Poems of RJ,"
 University of Tulsa, 1985 71:10

Encyclopedias/Handbooks

(Names of authors of articles on RJ are in parentheses.)

 

25:2 Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century (Coffin)

48:2 Writers of the English Language (Carpenter)

50:2 Scribners "American Writers" series (Squires)

52:5 Encyclopedia Americana (1978, Waggoner)

52:5 Encyclopaedia Britannica-(1972, Squires)

61:2 Dictionary of Literary Biography (Scott)

61:2 Encyclopedia of Literature (Nickerson)

62:3 Fifty Western Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Brophy)

66:2 The Literary History of the West (Brophy)

66:2 Harper Handbook to Literature (Frye, Baker, and Perkins)

78:4 Critical Survey of Am Literature (Livingston)

82:3 A Guide to American Poetry Explication: Volume 2, Modern & Contemporary (Leo), 82:3

 

Errata

The Beginning and the End 2:1, 3:3, 16:2, 20:2

Centennial Essays for RJ 81:3

Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems by RJ ("Hungerfield" lines missing) 72:3

RJ (Western Writers Series) 43:3

RJ: Selected Poems 20:3

The Stone Mason of Tor House 35:4, 51:5

 

Exhibits

(Representative only; see also Checklists, Festivals, and Manuscript Collections.)

 

1: 1 Occidental College

1:2 San Francisco Public Library

1:2 Grolier Club

2:1 Steuben Glass

8:1 San Francisco Public Library

16:1 For RJ's 80th birthday

17:1 Wellesley College Library

17:1 Bancroft Library, University of California

17:1 Occidental College Library

25:1 Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco

26:4 Walter E Dexter Library, California State Polytechnic College

26:5 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California at Los Angeles

26:6 Barrett Library, University of Virginia

30:7 University of Manitoba

30:8 Salinas High School and John Steinbeck Library

34:1 University of California, Santa Barbara

34:1 University of California, Santa Cruz (Lilienthal)

39:1 Marriott Library, University of Utah

39:1 Mary Norton Clapp Library, Occidental College (Lilienthal)

41:2 California State University Library, Long Beach

42:4 University of Houston

42:5 Califomia State University Library, Long Beach

43:2 Southern Oregon State College

55:2 California State University, Long Beach (Ponsold)

59:2, 60:4 Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach  (Ponsold/Motherwell )

62:2 Tor House Foundation and Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco

63:3 California State Library

63:4 University of California, Berkeley

65:3 Occidental College Library (Wiener)

68:3 Occidental College

69:2 Library of Congress

69:2 California State University, Long Beach (Wiener)

91:1 Harrison Memorial Library, Cannel

 

 

Explications

(See Poems by RJ; see also Guide to American Poetry Explication, 82:3)

 

"Birth-Dues" 38:6

"The Bloody Sire" 36:2, 51:4

"Cawdor" 82:5

"Crumbs or the Loaf' 31:8

"The Double Axe" 86:8

"Dear Judas" 51:7

"Fog" 16:2

"Give Your Heart to the Hawks" 31:2

"The Great Wound" 79:18, 95-96:29

"Hungerfield" 43:12 "Hurt Hawks" 88:18

"The Loving Shepherdess" 73:3

"Medea" 33:4, 60:23, 90:8

"Night" 37:6, 90:15

"Ossian's Grave" 89:13

"Pearl Harbor" 76:15

"The Place for No Story" 97:26

"Return" 42:12

"Roan Stallion" 30:12, 34:11, 63:3

"Second-Best" 40:7

"Shakespeare's Grave" 69:15

"Sign-Post" 39:10, 8913

"Shine, Perishing Republic" 21:2

"Shiva" 92:23

"Salmon-Fishing" 35:6

"Shine, Perishing Republic" 21:2
"Solstice" 54:7, 65:7

"Tamaw" 25:8, 31:3, 75:13

"To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House" 74:5

"The Tower Beyond Tragedy" 58:5

 

Festivals

 

Carmel, First Series

5:1, 6:1, 24:2 (lst, 1969)

25:2, 26:4 (2nd, 1970)

28:1, 30:1 (3rd, 1971)

31:1 (4th, 1972)

35:1 (5th, 1973)

 

Carmel, Second Series

54:1 (lst, 1979)

56:2 (2nd, 1980)

57:2, 59:3 (3rd, 1981)

61:1, 62:1 (4th, 1982)

63:2 (5th, 1983)

65:2 (6th,1984)

67:2 (7th, 1985)

68:1 (8th, 1986)

70:1, 71:1 (9th, 1987) 7

5:3 (l0th, 1988)

76:2 (11th, 1989)

77:2, 78:2 (12th, 1990)

79:2, 80:1 (13th, 1991)

84:1 (14th, 1992)

86:1,88:1 (15th, 1993)

90:2, 92:1 (16th, 1994)

 

To celebrate RJ, besides the October festivals, the Toy House Foundation has also annually held a May garden party and, more irregularly, a panegyric early in the year.

 

 

Other

Southern Oregon State College (1975) 43:1

California State University, Long Beach (1979) 51:3, 52:2

Steinbeck Library, Salinas (1982) 581, 61:3

Occidental College (Centennial, 1986-87) 67:1, 68:2, 69:1

San Jose State University (1987) 70:1. 71:1

Henry Miller Library, Big Sur (1994) 92:1

 

 

Films

(See also Television, Theater.)

 

"An American Poet" (University of Utah) 24:2, 30:1
"Cawdor" (Czech) 69:5, 75:3, 76:3

"'The Creative Person: RJ" (same as "Give Your Heart to the Hawks" and "The Creative Person: RJ") 16:1, 18:1, 25:2, 26:5, 30:1

"Don't Pave Main Street" 86:2, 97:14

"From the Tower" 33:2

"Give Your Heart to the Hawks" (later titled "The Creative Person: RJ" and "RJ"; San Francisco College Poetry Center) 16:1, 18:1, 25:Z, 26:5, 30:1

"Hawk Tower and Tor House" 92:5

"Longtimers: Senior Artists of the Monterey Peninsula: Pan 1" 92:4
"The Loving Shepherdess" 56:6, 75:3

"Medea" ("Play of the Week," 1959) 52:3
"Medea" (Kennedy Center) 77:4

"Medea" (public television interviews) 64:2
"Place for No Story" 38:1

"Point Lobos" 67:2

"Rhapsody and Requiem" 12:1, 13:1, 16:1

"Roan Stallion" 76:3

"Robinson Jeffers" (same as "Give Your Heart to the Hawks" and "The Creative Person: RJ") 43:1

"Rock and Hawk: The Life of RJ" 76:3, 77:4

"Son of Sad Fall: The Poetry of RJ" 2:3, 30:7

"Tor House: Lines from RJ" 52:5, 58:3

 

Indexes

 

RJN Indexes

46:14 "The Prose of RJ: An Annotated Checklist"
50:2 Index to English-Language Little Mags, 1890-1970
63:31 "An Index to the Poems of RJ"

64:16 "Index to First Lines of RJ's Poems

73:2 Index to Jeffers Manuscripts at the University of Texas (in progress, Kafka)

73:Supplement "An Index to RJ's Published Poems, Their First Appearances, and a Directory to Their Manuscripts"

86:25 "An Index to Articles Appearing in RJN Nos. 1-86"

87:23 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Books Reviewed or Noted"

87:26 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Biographical Materials"

87:28 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Manuscript Collections"

87:29 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Letter Series"

87:31 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Memoirs"
87:32 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Obituaries"
87:33 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Dissertations"
87:35 "Index, RJN Nos. 1-85: Masters Theses"

 

Other

41:5 The Proof Directory of Periodicals Publising Bibliographical and Textual Studies

41:5 Scholars Market 41:5

42:4 American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/l973 42:4

50:2 Serials Review

62:3, 67:4 The Literary Criticism Register

 

Influences/Parallels

(See also "Literary Influences," 67:9 and "Tor House Library," 23:4; check Vardamis's Critical Reputation of RJ, 34:3, Boswell's RJ and the Critics, 70:3, and Thesing's RJ and a Galaxy, 95:3 for books and articles; expect theme comparisons in various dissertations, e.g., Lucas, 77:6, Gundy, 77:8, Dickson, 77:9, Rothman, 86:6, and Edwards, 77:10.)

 

Abbey, E. 52:4, 74:4, (Morris) 92:2
Aeschylus. 40:6

Barker, E. 34:2

Bible. (Brophy) 24:5

Blake, W (Adkison) 92:2

Buddhism. 38:10

Bukowski, C. 90:6

Calvin, J. (Squires) 24:8

Campbell, J. 89:10

Canadians. 92:16

Clark, W. 25:5, 44:11

Copernicus, N. (Scott) 24:7

Crane, H. 89:5

Crane, S. (Griffith) 36:2

Dreiser, T (Thurston) 25:5

Edwards, J. 15:1

Einstein, A. 11:2

Eliot, T S. 38:4, 61:6, 88:18, 89:5

Ellis, H. 24:6

Emerson, R. 86:6

Euripides. (Brophy) 34:4, 40:5

Everson, W. 93-94

Faulkner, W. (McHaney) 27:3, 29:16

Freud, S. (Stephens) 24:8, (Shields) 37:3, (Brophy) 37:4

Goethe, J. W. 40:3

Greek mythology. 24:5, 40:9

Hardy, T. 38:2,40:9

Hawthorne, N. 40:7

Hebrew mythology. (Turlish) 32:2

Heidegger, M. 95:14, 97:26
Hemingway, E. (Wolfskill) 61:4

Hindu mythology. 92:23

Hopkins, G. M. (Hotchkiss) 40:5

Ireland. 22:1, 80:14

James, H. 40:7

Jung, G. (Everson) 22:1, (Stephens) 24:8

Kirwan, J. 39:6, 43:2

Landacre, P. 65:2

Krishnamurti, J. 67:8, 9, 89:7

Le Guin, U. 72:20

Leopold, A. 63:5

Levine, P. 91:5

London, J. (Fairbanks) 45:9

Lorca, F. 39:3

Lucretius. (Coffin) 24:6, (Squires) 24:8

Macleish, A. (Wolfskill) 61:4

Mann, T.  37:7

Marlowe, C. 40:6

Masters, E. L. 89:5

May, R. 25:2

Millay, E. St. V.  82:2

Miller, H. 97:21

Milosz, C. 82:2

Muir, J. (Sessions) 55:1

Nietzsche, E (Coffin) 24:6, (Hotchkiss) 40:5, (Irwin) 43:1
Oliver, M. (Glaser) 85:1

Olson, C. (Dorn) 92:3

O'Neill, E. (Lucas) 77:6, (Dickson) 77:9

Otto, R. (Everson) 69:3, 70:4

Petrie, F. 24:6

Poe, E. A. (Duboise) 25:6

Pound, E. 88:18

Rexroth, K. (Johnston) 86:5

Santayana, G. (Miller) 25:5, (Sessions) 55:1

Saroyan, W 50:2

Schopenhauer, A. (Coffin) 24:6, (Squires) 24:8

Shelley, P 38:2

Silko, L. M. (McDowell) 90:4

Snyder, G. 73:3, 78:28, (Johnston) 86:5, (Quigley) 6, 87:7

Socrates. 78:15

Spain. 91:5

Spenser, E. 75:11

Spengler, O. (Coffin) 24:6, (Squires) 24:8, (Hotchkiss) 40:5

Spinoza, B. (Sessions) 49:8, 50:2

Stevens, W. (Becker) 61:6, (Francis) 63:8, (Murphy) 89:5

Steinbeck, J. 83:4, 89:10

Sterling, G. 74:19

Teilhard de Chardin, P. 25:2

Thoreau, H. D. (Fairbanks) 45:9, (McDowell) 90:4, (Tangney) 92:2

Transcendentalists. (Hotchkiss) 40:5

Vico, G. (Coffin) 24:6

Welch, L. 78:28

Whitman, W (Hopkins) 25:6, (Hrubesky) 31:4, (Brophy) 31:6, (Rothman) 86:7 Wordsworth, W (Hunt) 89:2

Wright, J. 33:7
Yeats, W B. 61:6

 

Journals

(A sampling.)

 

Air California 523

American Literature Abstracts 24:2

Amer Literary Scholarship: An Annual/1973 42:4

American Poetry 70:5

The American Poetry Review 71:2

Antiquarian Bookman 47:4
Aurora 47:3

Bancroftiana 24:1

The Big Sur Gazette 53:4

Brushfire 41:5

The Canadian Review of American Studies 42:4

Carmel Cymbal (1437-42) 47:2

Carmel Pine Cone (1915-40) 47:2

Carmelite (1928-32) 47:2

Southern California Daily Trojan 53:47

Eco News 49:1

English Language Notes 46:3

La Fiera Litteraria 19:1

Fine Print: A Newsletter for the Arts of the Book 43:3

Harper's 44:2

Historic Preservation 49:1

Hoja Volante 6:2

Impromptu 2:3

Inquiry 49:8
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 92:5
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 46:3

Leviathan 49:5

The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 71:2

Literary Criticism Register 81:3

Los Angeles Times 4:2, 7:1

Metro (San Francisco) 58:4

The Milwaukee Journal 7:1

Monterey Peninsula Herald 30:7

Mosaic (Winnipeg) 61:2

New York Times Book Review 2:1

Not Man Apart (Friends of the Earth) 45:2

Occidental 70:5

Occidental College Alumus 2:3

Official Bulletin of The Poetry Society of America 24:1

Orpheus 20:1

Quarry West 78:14, 92:5

Quarterly Newsletter of the Book Club of California 2:1, 22:1, 71:2

Ramparts 2:3

The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 42:3

Saturday Evening Post 43:3

Segnacola 2:2

The Serif (Kent State University Library) 20:3

Sierra Club Bulletin 49:4

Sipario 19:1
Tematy 11:1
The West Coast Review 42:4
Westways 24:1

Lectures

(Selected and representative; see also Articles Noted and Chapters of Books Noted.)

 

Adkison,S. "William Blake and RJ: Poets of Apocalypse" 92:2

Bednar, K. In Brataslava 14:3

Baird, J. "RJ and the Deep Ecologists" 92:2

Bly, R. On RJ and World War 11 90:2

Brophy,R. "J and the Student of the '70s" 26:3; "The Primitive Religious Character of J's Poetry" 26:3; "The Mysticism of RJ" 27:2; "RJ: Prophet of the Final Frontier" 40:2; "RJ: Metaphysician of the West" 43:2; "RJ: A Poet for High School" 45:2; "RJ's Lifelong Confrontation with Death" 46:2; "Everson & the Religious Dimension in RJ" 80:2; "City as Dystopia: The Apocalyptic Vision of RJ" 89:2; "Sex, Patriarchy, and the Arrogance of Power 89:2; "Human Habitation/Desecration and the Building of Tor House" 92:2

Dickson, N. "Personification Allegory in RJ's 'Tamar"' 48:3
Dorn, E. "RJ, Charles Olson: The Rise and Fall of Nature in California" 92:3
Everson, W. "A Poet Reads and Reflects on J's Themes" 30:1

Flower, M. "Seeking an Eco-centric Ethic Beyond Human Wants: Shadows and Labyrinths" 43:2

Gioia, D. "Revival of the Narrative Poem" 77:2

Hotchkiss, W. "Formulation of the Inhumanistic Ethic" 43:2

Hunt, T. "'Wordsworthian Auspices': J and the Reinvention of the Narrative Poem" 89:2; "The Redemptive Daughter, The Avenging Son: J and the Fall of History" 92:3

Hunt, T., and A. Gelpi. "The Lost Years, RJ, 1917-1926" 92:2

Kafka, R. "Some Unpublished J Poems with Early Biographical References" 92:2

Karman, J. "Contra Culture: RJ's Critique of Modem Life" 42:4

Kingman, D. On composing "Five Earthscapes with Birds" 31:1

Kirwan, J. "The journey" 43:2

Krutch, J. At Occidental College on the 50th anniversary of RJ's graduation (1955) 29:6

Kurrik, M. "RJ's Negations: The Dialectics of'Not' in 'The Bloody Sire"' 51:4

Lilienthal, M. "The Relevance of RJ" 18:1

Morris, D. "RJ's Influence on Edward Abbey" 921

Murphy, P. "An Evolutionary Error? R], Gary Snyder, and People's Place in the Gaia Hypothesis" 84:2

Nolte, W. "Hitler, the All Too Human Savior" 43:2; "The Relevance of J" 62:2

Norman, J. "Local Legend: RJ: Poet and Historian" 90:2

Powell, L. C. 1:2; "The Three Ls" 7:1; "The Lure of California" 8:1; Third Annual RJ Festival 59:1

Ritchie, W. "The Poet and the Printers: Some Experiences of the Poet RJ" 55:2
Rorty, J. At Poetry Society of America meeting 24:1

Santos, S. "On the Memory of Stone--A Tor House Legacy" 92:1
Scott, R. "J's Cosmology: The World as One God" 43:2

Shoben, E. "Nature and Human Nature in RJ: The Question of Validity" 92:2
Snyder, G. Comments on the function of the poet today 70:2

Tangney, S. "RJ as Postapocalyptic Thoreau: A New Way of Seeing Inhumanism" 92:2
Tor House Foundation Seminar (G. White, J. Karman, J. Dotson, D. Hughes, and K. Yost). "Five Afternoons with RJ" 63:2

Van Doren, M. At American Academy of Arts and Letters meeting 5:2; At Poetry Society of America meeting 24:1

Vardamis, A. "J's Critical Reputation with the Environmentalists" 92:2
Vaughn, E. "The Theater of RJ" 53:3

Witschi, N. "Helen Thurso 's'Image-Making Mind': Consciousness & Gender in
     'Thurso's Landing" 92:2

Zaller, R. "RJ and the Female Archetype" (Panel) 84:2

 

 

Letters

 

From RJ

Aperitif. Many Helens; not a pessimist 80:13

Alberts: Book inscriptions 59:3

Betts: 1931-32 57:26

Burnett and Slatkin (editors of American Authors Today, 1947): On "Hurt Hawks" and "Promise of Peace" 84:5

Commins: 1948 72:17, 18

Hammack: 1914-17 47:10-12 Klein: 1930 and 1935 67:11 1

Lampson: 1934-35 78:41

Lyman: 1934 34:25

Masters: Correspondence with RJ being edited 52:5

Millay: 1929-37 59:17

Munson: 1934 29:11
Willis: 1951 73:17

From RJ, mentioned in sellers' catalogs
Clapp: Two letters 50:3
Roberts: On "The Women at Point Sur," 1937 63:29
O'Sullivan: On the death of Molly 63:29

Anonymous author and anti-bomb activist: Too late to renounce A-bomb, though a wicked thing, March 22, 1946 63:29

 

From Una Jeffers

Anderson: 1941-50 65:8

Bird: 1932-42 76:19

Barkan: 1930-49 44:7, 45:10, 46:8, 47:12

Bender: 1927-29 60:5

Carpenter: 1943-45 69:19

Gilbert: 1937-17 73:5

Klein: 1930, 1935: 67:11

Luhan: 1930-48 77:25, 8012, 83:12, 84:17, 85:26, 86:15, 87:9, 88:29, 89:28, 90:23

Matthias: 1927-50 49:12, 50:12, 51:23, 53:31, 55:3

Meickle: 1942 74:17
O'Sullivan: ca. 1935-38 63:18
Pinkham: 1912-46 56:7, 57:6, 58:18, 59:6

 

From Una Jeffers, mentioned in sellers' catalogs

Caldwell: Did he take the "turret key"; future designs for tower and house 50:3

Forster: On Cornwall and Land's End 56:3

Pinkham: About RJ's desk at Tor House and "Tamar" manuscript 74:2

 

 

Manuscript Collections (See also sequential list, 87:28.)

 

Preliminary survey 4:3

Proposal for series 33:11

Small and minor holdings 56:47

American Literary Manuscripts (Modem Language Association) 51:55

Alabama, University of 33:13, 46:42

Brooklyn Public Library 37:11

California: California State University, Long Beach 39:21; University of California, Berkeley (Bancroft Library) 34:7; University of California, Santa Barbara (Corle Collection and Judith Anderson Papers) 54:29; James S. Copley Library (La Jolla) 84:23; Mills College (Albert Bender Collection) 47:29; Occidental College 44:21, 62:35; San Francisco, University of (Gleeson Library) 43:18, 64:7; Stanford University 42:15, 47:28; Tor House Foundation 54:29, 56:45, 65:31

Columbia University 58:32

Library of Congress 40:17
Maryland, University of 58:35
New York Public Library (Berg Collection) 48:24
North Carolina, University of 38:17
Texas, University of (Austin) 30:9, 45:13, 60:22
Virginia, University of (Barrett Library) 26:6
Yale University (Beinecke Library) 35:7, 36:11, 41:6

 

Maps in RJN

 

30:14 Jeffers Country (Brophy)

53:24 Tor House and Hawk Tower property

53:25 Ocean View-Scenic Road-Stewart Way city block

56:24 Lake Washington abode, 1913

61:41 "Jeffers Country: A Literary Map" (Fitzgerald and Beach); described 54:1, 58:3

86:24 proposed Tor House expansion (UJ)

98-99:Cover: "A Map of the Carmel Coast" (Powell and Ritchie); 98-99:7-8 Big Sur Coast (UJ); 98-99:35 "Jeffers Country" (Brophy); 98-99:Insert "Jeffers Country" (Hughey)

 

Described

82:2 California maps (U.S. Geological Survey)

92:6 "Coastal California" (National Geographic)

 

Memoirs (See also sequential list, 87:26; Letters; and Biographical Materials.)

 

Barkan, Phoebe. "The J Family as I Knew Them" 53:26

Brinnin, Malcolm. "An Awkward Meeting" 66:4

Chaplin, Charlie. "Chaplin on Jeffers" 37:2

Dickie, Jean. "RJ: A Remembrance" 79:14

Eaton, David. "Observations on Meeting RJ" 69:5

Eberhardt, Richard. Memoir 27:5; "A Tribute and Appreciation" 27:6

Everson, William. "Everson on Jeffers" 97:19

Field, Sara Bard. Memoir pages on RJ 33:13

Gilpin, Phoebe. "RJ as I Knew Him" (a note) 82:1

Hinkley, Violet. "UJ: A Sister's Memoir" 82:9

Hughes, Langston. "On Jeffers" 55:28

Jeffers, Garth. "Vignettes of My Father" 76:6

Jordan-Smith, Paul. "A Reminiscence" 66:3

Kannan, James. A Note on William Hamilton Jeffers" 42:9

Klein, Herbert. "The Nameless Greatest American Poet" 66:5

Klein, Mina. "J Observed" 61:7

Lehman, Benjamin. "Recollections and Reminiscences" 63:12

Luhan, Mabel. "Una and Robin" 81:7

Lyman, W. W. "RJ" 34:19

Lyon, Horace. "J as a Subject for Horace Lyon's Camera" 18:2; "The Little People of the Santa Lucias" 48:7; "J as Subject for the Camera" 88:9

Marshall, Barth. "The J Family: A Reminiscence" 69:17

Matthias, Blanche. "R] and Krishnamurti" 67:8

Moody, Mrs William Vaughn. Letter to Theodore Maynard 41:5

Powell, Lawrence Clark. "Dijon, 1930-32 62:10; "Two Diary Vignettes on J" 65:7

Ritchie, Ward. "Theodore Lilienthal, RJ and the Quercus Press" 34:15; "J:Some Recollections of RJ" 52:16

Rorty, James. Memoir 27:4

Van Doren, Mark. Memoir 27:3

Williams, Jean. "In The Poet's Path" 79:16

Willis, Stanley. "A Memoir" 53:30

 

Miscellaneous

 

Age study of artists 48:2

American Literature on Demand Reprints 48:3, 50:3

Asteroid named after Hamilton J 45:1

Astrological note 36:7

Beach Boys Holland: RJ lyric 38:1

Bednar, K. Our Garden: Our Friend 91:3

Big Sur Coast National Scenic Area 56:2

Bohemian Club (San Francisco) 53:4

Book of Gaelic Airs (Ritchie) 75:2, 77:2

Brown, Governor Jerry: RJ "one of the few authors important to him" 45:2

Bus tours of Big Sur 52:4, 53:4, 56:2, 58:2

Caricature of RJ, David Levine style 82:Cover

Cassette Studies/Curriculum 49:8, 62:3

"Coast-Road" (Highway 1) washout 63:1

Concordance (Miles) 64:3

Death and Dying Workshop Series (California State University, Long Beach) 46:2

Directories: A Directory of Periodicals Publishing Bibliographical and Textual Work 45:3; Serials Review 50:2; Index To English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970 50:2

Earthday X Colloquium at University of Denver: Jeffers theme 56:3

Essay competition for undergraduates at California colleges and universities 69:4 Fieldtrip 88:14

Films: The Eiger Sanction 40:2; Place For No Story 38:1; Zandy's Bride 40:2

Humor by RJ 12:5, 69:5, 72:7, 82:1

Illustrations by RJ 77:2

Iris, a long narrative poem in the style of RJ (Jarman) 84:1

Jeffers, U. M.A. Thesis, May 1910, University of Southern California: "The Enduring Element of Mysticism in Man" 50:4

"Kennedy Center Tonight: Medea" (1983) 63:2

Legends in Carmel 92:6, 7

Library at Tor House 23:4, 53:2

Melodeon: A Book of Gaelic Airs 75:2, 77:2

Menu: "RJ's Lamb Chops" 79:2
Microfilms of Carmel periodicals from Bell and Howell 47:2
Monopoly game based on RJ topography and story-telling 86:3
Monterey/Carmel/Sur in books 43:4

Monterey Conference Center RJ Plaza 50:2

Mural (WPA project) with RJ, San Francisco Beach 56:6

Narratives by RJ (unfinished) at University of Texas 45:14 Opera libretto by RJ 73:4

Oral history: Sara Bard Field 33:13

Our Garden: Our Friend (Bednar) 91:3

Pico Blanco Mountain almost leased as lime quarry 72:2

Plaques on live oak trees in Saratoga, California, honoring RJ and Robert Frost 53:3

Poets Respond to RJ: The Wings Still 62:2

Powell, L. C.: checklist of his published writings 40:2

Recipes: Sincerely Yours 74:10

Schlesinger reads "Shine, Republic" to NATO Nuclear Planning Group 42:1

"Shingle Shaking" fund raising parties for Tor House 56:2

Stationery: Lansdowne 53:5

Ties and cosmetic bags with Tor House design (Talbott) 53:2

Tor House Docents: Slides (Miles) 71:3; Tea at Tor House 86:2; Brochure 52:4

Tor House Inscriptions 75:2

Tor House sign: "Not at Home" 21:1

Tour of "Jeffers Country" 30:1

Tours of Eire 83:3, 86:1

Work in progress: 3:2 Rorty book; 8:1 RJ/Sterling correspondence (Hart); 41:6 RJ's style (Scharton); 46:3, 47:4 "Point Alma Venus" (Kafka); 56:5 The Drama and Theater of RJ (Vaughn); 56:5 Bibliography of RJ's works (Be ilke); 56:5 The Excesses of God (Everson); 56:5 "Medea" (Whitehead); 58:4 "The Heart and Rage of RJ" (Wolfe); 73:2 Index to University of Texas RJ manuscripts (Kafka); 81:2 RJ and Mary Oliver (Glaser); 82:3 "Reactionary Humanism: the New Critics' Response to the Poetry of RJ" (Mitchell)

Yolla Bolly Press 64:4, 66:2, 67:4

Zeitlin Lecture Series (California State University, Long Beach) 53:4