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Judas, Savior of Jesus
van Doren, Mark | January 1, 1930 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Dear Judas and Other Poems," by Robinson Jeffers. It is far from being one of Jeffers's best poems. To begin with it is an idea more than it is a poem, and the fact that it is ingenious, or that it seems to fit very nearly into Jeffers's whole system of "misanthropy," does riot alter the case. The success of Dear Judas depends after all upon one's perception of a theory, and even upon one's agreement with this theory; which at once removes the discussion of it from the field of criticism as one sees that field. The setting, as might have been expected, is somber and fine, and the utterances of the principal persons often reach a high level of rhetoric.

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DEAR Judas & Other Poems (Book); JEFFERS, Robinson; POETRY; LITERATURE; CRITICISM; RHETORIC
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