CAWDOR AND MEDEA; A Long Poem After Euripides

Jeffers, Robinson

ISBN 10: 0811200736 / ISBN 13: 9780811200738

Published by New Directions, 1970

About this Item

New Directions, 1970. 191pp. 8vo. Uncreased spine, fine bright looks unread trade paperback.

Seller Inventory # 114491

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CAWDOR AND MEDEA; A Long Poem After Euripides
• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811200736
• ISBN 13: 9780811200738
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY

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Synopsis

Here for a new generation of readers and students are two major poetic works of Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962).

The verse narrative Cawdor, set on the ruthless California coast which Jeffers knew so well, tells a simple tale: an aging widower, Cawdor, unwilling to relinquish his youth, knowingly marries a young girl who does not love him. She falls in love with his son, Hood, and the narrative unfolds in tragedy of immense proportions.

Medea is a verse adaptation of Euripides' drama and was created especially for the actress Judith Anderson. Their combined genius made the play one of the outstanding successes of the 1940s. In Medea, Jeffers relentlessly drove toward what Ralph Waldo Emerson had called "the proper tragic element"―terror.

About the Author

John Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) graduated from Occidental College at the age of eighteen. Subsequently, he studied literature at the University of Southern California; philosophy, Old English, Dante, and Spanish romantic poetry in Switzerland; medicine at USC; and forestry at the University of Washington. Much of his poetry focused on the central California coast.