Towers of myth & stone : Yeats's influence on Robinson Jeffers

153 Pages·2015·1.129 MB·English

by  Fleming, Deborah

Towers of
Myth & Stone

Towers
of Myth
& Stone
Yeats’s Influence
on Robinson Jeffers
. . . .
Deborah Fleming
The University of South Carolina Press
© 2015 University of South Carolina
Published by the University of South Carolina Press
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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ISBN 978-1-61117-547-9 (hardcover or cloth)
ISBN 978-1-61117-548-6 (ebook)
Front cover photographs
background, © VTsybulka/istockphoto.com;
insets from top, Thoor-Ballylee, courtesy of the author;
Robinson Jeffers setting stone, courtesy of the Tor House Foundation;
Hawk Tower, courtesy of the author
For Clarke

Contents
Acknowledgments : ix
Chapter 1.
Robinson Jeffers, W. B. Yeats,
and Ecoprophecy : 1
Chapter 2.
Landscape and the Self : 20
Chapter 3.
“Two curves in the air”—Prophecy
and Eternal Recurrence : 46
Chapter 4.
Solitary Hero versus
Social Man—Jeffers’s Dear Judas
and Yeats’s Calvary : 69
Chapter 5.
Rationalism and the Great
Memory of the World : 83
Chapter 6.
Radical Traditionalism : 107
Notes : 121
Bibliography : 127
Index : 137
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank James Denton, Tim Hunt, Ann Saddlemyer, and Robert
Zaller for their suggestions on this manuscript.
Chapters 1, 4, 5, and 6 were originally published in Jeffers Studies. Chapter 2
appeared in Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction (2002), edited by J. Scott Bryson.
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