Robinson Jeffers' statement in 1928 that 'I'd sooner, except for the penalties, kill a man than a hawk' startled the reading public with a different understanding of human significance in the world.1 Twenty years later, Jeffers labelled his philosophy 'inhumanism', which he defined as 'a shifting of emphasis and significance from man to notman the rejection of human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman magnificence'.2Īfter stunning initial success, Jeffers found that his high regard for the natural world and low regard for humans combined with his isolationist political stance had earned him the scorn of public tastemakers, especially during the Great Depression and the Second World War.
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