The Poetry

A 1933 Edward Weston Photo of Jeffers from the Oxy Jeffers Collection	"Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated challengers of oblivion... The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems." - Robinson Jeffers, "To the Stone-Cutters"
Occidental College has a fine collection of Jeffers letters, manuscripts, books and pictures.	Sample scanned manuscripts from the Occidental Jeffers Collection
Jeffers at Occidental College The Poetry Jeffers' Fascinating Friends and Family The Controversial Life of the Poet Organizations Dedicated to the Man and his Poetry Other Online Exhibits
	Handwritten First Draft of the poems "Joy" and "Autumn Evening" from Oxy's Jeffers' collection.	Handwritten copy by Jeffers of the poem "Evening" in the Jeffers' collection
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