“Envying the cruel falcon”: The Anti-Liberal Poetry of Robinson Jeffers Part Two of Two
This America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire “Shine, Perishing Republic” Go to Part One. Modern man’s spiritual and physical weakness, in the understanding of Jeffers, is not just a cause for despair, but is mortally dangerous. In “The Purse-Seine” (1938) the poet recalls watching sardines being gathered in by […]