Christian Century
“Few American poets are treated as well by publishers as Jeffers is by Stanford University Press.”
Book Description
This book, the fourth of a five volume set, is in three parts. “Poetry 1903-1920” consists of some of the poems published while Jeffers was a college student, two early collections (Flagons and Apples and Californians), and a number of poems that were never published or were recently rediscovered. “Introductions, Forewords, and Miscellaneous Prose, 1920-1948” gathers all the major prose works. “Unpublished Poems and Fragments, 1910-1962” is mostly material that Jeffers never published, and apparently never tried to publish. The fifth volume in the edition will consist of commentary containing various procedural explanations and textual evidence for the texts presented in the edition, as well as transcriptions of working notes for the poems and of alternate and discarded passages. The Collected Poetry is designed by Adrian Wilson.
