Cawdor, a Long Poem : Medea, After Euripides

Robinson Jeffers
New Directions Publishing Corporation
 9780811200738
0-8112-0073-6

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.