Her lover, Robinson Jeffers, three years younger, was an unemployed student who drank too much. But she was married to a wealthy and prominent Los Angeles attorney. OctoPoet Robinson Jeffers and wife, Una, 'tell their own story' in newly published letters When you visit this treasure you will truly appreciate the beautiful Carmel landscape that inspired many of his poems.Poet Robinson Jeffers and wife, Una, 'tell their own story' in newly published letters | Stanford News Release
The enduring building retains the timelessness of Jeffers’ work. Throughout the year, Tor House hosts a series of poetry readings and performances. His style was a self-professed “inhumanism” through which he expressed the need for human beings to decenter themselves and connect to the magnificence of the inherent beauty in the world.ĭuring your tour of Tor House and Hawk Tower, you can enjoy a leisurely stroll through the vibrant English cottage garden and slip back in time to the romantic era of Carmel’s revered poet. As well as the Carmel landscape, Jeffers’ themes included moral despair and conflicting desires. One of his most endearing poems is the famous “Tor House,” which encapsulates the soul-stirring atmosphere that surrounds the salt-licked air and rugged granite. Here, on the Carmel-Big Sur coast, Jeffers penned narrative and epic poems as well as short verse, all of which he soon became highly regarded for. The 40-foot stone tower offers a breathtaking view of the rugged California coastline, which Jeffers and his wife loved so much. Jeffers built the accompanying Hawk Tower, as a retreat for his wife and sons, with his own two hands. Modeled after an English, Tudor-style barn, the cottage was originally comprised of a living room, main floor guest room, small kitchen, two attic bedrooms and one bathroom. Over the next four years, using granite boulders from Carmel Bay’s rocky shoreline, Jeffers built Tor House and Hawk Tower and made it home for himself, Una and their twin sons. He and his wife Una fell in love with the location in 1914. The idyllic stone cottage was once home to American poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). Tor House is one of the most enticing attractions in Carmel, California. We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confidentĪs the rock and ocean that we were made from.” “We must uncenter our minds from ourselves Tor House and Hawk Tower – A Poet’s Haven
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