The groups are small (there were six on our tour) and are led by volunteers who are passionate about Jeffers, his family, his house. The tour is only available limited days and tickets are required. It’s an amazing feat and it’s unclear how he could have accomplished this in his lifetime, but apparently, he did. Jeffers built the home himself from rocks that he somehow managed to retrieve from the shore below. The tour is an opportunity to learn a lot about him and includes some short readings of his poetry, but mostly its a pretty cool tour of Tor. Visit the Tor House Foundation website for hours, admission fees, and more information.The Tor House was the home of poet Robinson Jeffers. Managed by the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, the Tor House is open for tours, and poetry programs and readings are presented throughout the year. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin, and Charlie Chaplin. The Jeffers family also entertained many influential literary and cultural celebrities there, among them Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. His poem " Rock and Hawk" is a perfect example of his belief in the dramatic, and often tragic, power of nature: Here is a symbol in whichĪlmost all of Jeffers’s writing was done at Tor House. Nearby, Jeffers also built a forty-foot stone structure-Hawk Tower-selecting and laying each stone himself.īoth the Tower and the coastal landscape figure strongly in Jeffers’s poetry, much of which celebrates the awesome beauty of the hills and ravines that plunged into the Pacific. In 1919, he began building a stone cottage overlooking Carmel Bay that he called Tor House, after the craggy knoll, or "tor", on which it was built. After marrying in 1913, he and his wife, Una, settled in Carmel, California. The poet Robinson Jeffers was born in 1887 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and moved to California with his family as a teenager.
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