![]() ![]() This past November with stormy skies and heavy seas looming on the horizon, I visited Tor House with Marleen Fouché, my photographer. Here was contemporary life that was also permanent life.” “Men were riding after cattle, or plowing the headland, hovered by white seagulls, as they have done for thousands of years, and will for thousands of years to come. “Here was life purged of its ephemeral accretions,” Jeffers wrote in 1938. Except for vacations to the British Isles in 1929, 19, periodic visits to the art colony of Taos during the 1930s, and a reading tour in 1941 at the Library of Congress, they never left. Jeffers called it “our inevitable place.” Buffeted by winds and storms, Tor House would become the couple’s sanctuary, providing a setting for a life of simplicity, harmony, and creativity. This wild, craggy spot at the Continent’s End was unlike any other place that the widely traveled poet had seen. He named the cottage Tor House, Gaelic for the craggy knoll on which it was built, and the tower after a hawk which flew overhead daily and then disappeared the day it was completed. Over the next decade from 1918 to 1925, Jeffers would hire an Irish stonemason and build the family’s two-story stone cottage and a forty-foot Celtic tower enclosed by sturdy walls all made from granite boulders. Drawn to the rugged coastline that reminded them of West Britain, the young couple bought five large, undeveloped lots on a rocky, wind-battered promontory just south of the village at Carmel Point, which they called ‘Standing Stones.’ entered the war.Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived in 1914. participation in World War II, a stance that was controversial after the U.S. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of “inhumanism”, Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole. However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Much of Jeffers’s poetry was written in narrative and epic form. John Robinson Jeffers (1887 – 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Robinson Jeffers: Rock and Hawk Here is a symbol in which ![]()
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