The experience is not just for fans of Jeffers’ poetry. Knowledgeable docents provide fascinating insight into Jeffers, his family and his work. The only way to access the property is by guided tour. Work was completed on the home in 1919, and shortly after, inspired by the stone towers he saw in Ireland, Jeffers built Hawk Tower as a magical retreat for his twin sons.
He became a major literary figure in the first half of the 20th century. When not building, Jefferson wrote epic, philosophical poems. He was interested in stonemasonry and did much of the work himself. Jeffers worked on Tor House for many years after he and his wife found their ideal site in the early 1900s. Take a tour, enjoy the ocean views and breathe in the atmosphere that inspired one of America’s greatest poets. Today, this tranquil oceanfront property is preserved in its original state. Jeffers wrote his most famous works here, including an adaptation of Medea, which became a major Broadway play. Tor House was the home of American poet Robinson Jeffers and his family.
Visit the Tor House Foundation website for hours, admission fees, and more information.Be inspired by this fairytale stone cottage on the dramatic Carmel Big Sur coastline, built by one of America’s legendary poets. 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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