A listing of poets and poems that may have influenced Jeffers’ work, whether in form, in tone, or in theme. All poems in this list were published before 1922. None of the poems listed was obscure at the time. Jeffers’ exposure to these poets and their work is presumed.

• Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552 — 1618) [skeptic/contrarian]
  • The Lie
• William Shakespeare [bard as dramatist]
  • MacBeth: Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow …
• William Wordsworth (1770–1850) [nature peacher; the Romantic sublime]
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner [the Romantic sublime]
  • Christabel [stressed verse]
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) [theory of poetry; controversial themes]
• John Keats (1795–1821) [poet of beauty]
• Matthew Arnold (1822–88) [stressed verse; realism]
  • The Youth of Nature (pub. 1852)
  • The Youth of Man (pub. 1852–55)
• Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828–1882)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) [stressed verse]
  • The Windhover (1877 … 1918)
  • Binsey Poplars (1879 … 1918)
  • Inversnaid (1881 … 1918)
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) [realism, naturalism, inhumanism]
  • The Convergence of the Twain (1914)
  • Channel Firing (1914)
• William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1893)
  • A Coat (1914)
  • The Second Coming (1919 … 1921)
  • To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee (pub. 1921)
• Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
  • Dulce et Decorum Est (1917/8 … 1920) [grotesque]