alth continued to disintegrate until she passed away on September 1st of 1950. Above and beyond being a faithful spouse, Una was “a forceful, possessive, protective woman” and consequently, “she had been an immeasurable source of strength” to Jeffers (Butterfield 416). After Una’s death, Jeffers kept to himself writing a few brief yet profound poems which he organized into a book called Hungerfield and Other Poems which was published in 1954. In the eleven years that Jeffers lived after Una’s death, he received the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, the Borestone Mountain Award, the Award of the Academy of American Poets, and the Shelly Memorial Award. Jeffers took one last trip to Ireland to visit the countryside that Una had loved so much (Zaller xv). After this final excursion, Jeffers stayed at the Tor House and slowly wasted away. Despite his immense sadness, Jeffers did not break “the pact he had made early in his career, not to take his own life but to drink it all, even to the dregs” (Brophy 7). On January 20th in 1962, Jeffers died at the Tor House. Jeffers was “a major poet, uncomfortable, disturbing, savage at times, yet inspiriting and enhancing” (Butterfield 439). ...
