Cawdor and Medea: A Long Poem After Euripides a New Directions Book
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1970. Trade Paperback. Item #302511
ISBN: 0811200736
Very good in wrappers (paperback).
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.
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