Jeffers said his interests included "stone masonry, tree planting, swimming, pipe smoking, drives and walks in the Coast Range, reverent admiration of hawks, herons and pelicans." It was completed in less than four years, Jeffers built the tower entirely by himself using wooden planks and a block and tackle to move the stones and to set them in place. In 1920, Jeffers began building Hawk Tower as a retreat for his wife and a magic place for his sons. Oil lamps and candles provided illumination until electricity was installed in 1949.Įmbedded in the walls of Tor House are hundreds of small stones, bits of ceramic and other sovenirsįrom the British Isles, Angkor Wat, Babylon, Rome, Pompeii, Delos, China, Egypt and MesoAmerica. "Tor" is Welsh for hill or a large, free-standing rock outcrop. The granite stones were drawn by horses from the little cove below the house. In 1918, Jeffers began building the Tor House after an apprenticeship with a Carmel stonemason. It was at the beginning of his time in Carmel that Jeffers turned exclusively to writing poetry. In 1913, he married Una Call Kuster and they moved to Carmel where they lived for the rest of their lives, building the stone Tor House and Hawk Tower, both of which figure prominently in his work. He graduated from Presbyterian Occidental College at age eighteen.
While in college, Jeffers studied studied literature, medicine and forestry. The Jeffers family frequently traveled to Europe. As a boy, he was trained in the Bible and classical languages. Robinson Jeffers was born in 1887 in Pittsburgh.
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