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Jeffers and the Tragic Sense
Rice, Philip Blair | October 23, 1935 issue

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The article discusses the book "Solistice and Other Poems," by Robinson Jeffers. The book contains two long poems and eighteen shorter pieces. Solstice, another tale of violence in the California hinterland, is what is regarded as the typical Jeffers' poem. Again the author makes use of a Greek theme, this time the Medea story. The protagonist, the newly divorced wife of a rancher, kills her children when their father, to whom they have been awarded by the court, comes to take them away and to turn her out of their home.

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SOLISTICE & Other Poems (Book); JEFFERS, Robinson; POETRY; VIOLENCE; FICTION; LITERATURE
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