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Though his family came from the East and traveled often around
Europe while he was growing up, Robinson Jeffers found his
true home as a young adult in northern California. Still relatively
unpopulated, California in 1903 had a wild, rugged landscape
that would serve as inspiration for many of Jeffers's poems.
Jeffers graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles in
1905 and after pursuing graduate studies in both medicine
and forestry, he decided instead to become a professional
poet. In 1914 he moved with his wife to Carmel, south of San
Francisco on the Pacific Coast, and made it his lifelong home.
As the century progressed, Jeffers became increasingly outraged
as California's natural beauty suffered from the increase
in population. His volumes of poetry include Tamar
(1924), Roan Stallion (1925), Give Your Heart
to the Hawks (1933), and Solstice (1935).
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