The Resume

(January 10, 1887-January 20, 1962)
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Birth name was John Robinson Jeffers
Poetry collections include 'Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems' (1925), 'The Women at Point Sur' (1927), 'Cawdor and Other Poems' (1928), 'Dear Judas and Other Poems' (1929), 'Thurso's Landing and Other Poems' (1932), 'Solstice and Other Poems' (1935), 'Such Counsels You Gave To Me and Other Poems' (1937), 'Be Angry at the Sun' (1941), 'Medea' (1946), 'The Double Axe and Other Poems' (1948), 'Hungerfield and Other Poems' (1954) and 'The Beginning and the End and Other Poems' (1963)

Why he might be annoying:

He studied medicine and forestry without getting a degree in either.
Lines like 'I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk' prompted one critic to call him 'the Walt Whitman of misanthropy.'
His popularity went into a sharp decline after he opposed US entry into World War II, which included equating the leadership on both sides. ('To take their rank in history/Roosevelt, Hitler and Guy Fawkes/Hanged above the garden walks')
Eventually, Random House added their own forward to his works, essentially saying 'We may publish him, but we do not hold the same opinions.'
He disliked re-reading his poems, saying 'It is a pleasure to write, but after a thing is written I hate to see it again.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He built his own stone house and an adjoining four-story tower.
His poems about nature made him an icon of environmentalists.
He said people were too indifferent to 'the astonishing beauty of things.'
He was a favorite poet of Charles Bukowski and Czeslaw Milosz.
He said, 'I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Poets
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 50]
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [H-L]
• I Attended Occidental College
• I Attended University of Southern California
• I Attended University of Washington
• I Died in 1962 (Ranked: 75)
• Influenced by Friedrich Nietzche
• Known By a Middle Name
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read Selections [Authors] (Ranked: 2008)
• Parents of Twins
• Poets
• Profiles 34751-35000 (Ranked: 34894)

Year In Review:

In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying