biography
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Jeffers, (John) Robinson
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| lived:
| (1887–1962)
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He attended six colleges and universities in Europe and America, studying medicine and forestry among other subjects. He began writing in 1912, and from 1924 lived in seclusion by the ocean near Carmel, CA, where he built his own stone house. He is known for his mythical lyrics and narrative poems, as in Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems (1925), most of which promoted his pessimistic view of humanity in the larger scheme of an impersonal cosmos. |
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