The texts for this edition revert to Jeffers' own preferences, insofar as the best methods of modern textual editing can reveal them.
From the completion of Tor House in August 1919 through summer 1920 , the course of Jeffers ' work is generally clear ... known as " Brides of the South Wind " ( here labeled BSW.1 ) .12 BSW.1 is apparently no earlier than spring 1920 .
They stole my life . I think it might have flowed clean Even to the floor of the cup . My death's not clean . This is it : Ah : I haven't told you the half . I was put down And shovelled under : you know : gypped , shipped and killed ...
This volume is in three parts.
The first three volumes of this four-volume work, will present chronologically all of Jeffers' published work from 1920 to 1963.