
Jeffers traveled through Europe during his youth and attended school in Germany, France, and Switzerland. His brother was Hamilton Jeffers, a well-known astronomer who worked at Lick Observatory. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle. Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr. participation in World War II, a stance that was controversial after the U.S. Influential and highly regarded in some circles, despite or because of his philosophy of "inhumanism", Jeffers believed that transcending conflict required human concerns to be de-emphasized in favor of the boundless whole.

However, he is also known for his shorter verse and is considered an icon of the environmental movement. Much of Jeffers's poetry was written in narrative and epic form.


John Robinson Jeffers (Janu– January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast.
