Robinson Jeffers was very popular during the 20s and 30s, in whose poetry
the reader would find human unimportant. To the poet, human was equal to
any other entity in Nature, such as the hawks or the rocks. The poet's
emphasis on "inhumanism," re-defining the position of human in the world, drew
a lot of attention and became critical study material for ecopoetry. When
the World War II broke out, however, the poet's indifference to human matters
caused his fame to ebb. Additionally, because he kept repeating the same theme
in his poems, many critics, thinking he was lacking more original insight,
found his works uninteresting and turned to other fields. Although it is true
that Jeffers keeps playing the same trick and his didatic style often wears
the reader out, his candid, and detached voice is invaluable among the
usually obscure modern poets.