This new Jeffers Selected Poetry includes poems from the last quarter century of his life (the previous Selected Poetry included poems only through 1937). World War, and the future of Western civilization. On close reading, Medea is inextricably linked to such discourses, and to Jeffers’ most trenchantly political volume of poetry, The Double-Axe: it is a text which subtly combines Euripides with polemical commentary on the atomic bomb, American involvement in the Second These works, influenced by Spengler, used narratives of the ancient world to point up the ‘decline’ of contemporary Western It sites Medea within a considerable body of post-Second World War literature which was engaged in polemical parataxis of ancient and modern This article offers a rather different perspective: it examines Jeffers’ preoccupation withīlending the past and the present, and his debt to the historical theorist Oswald Spengler, who proposed a cyclical theory While many of Jeffers’ poetic works were highly engaged with contemporary politicalĭiscourses, critical opinion has been united in seeing Medea as fundamentally apolitical. Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/thecra19/public_html/wp-content/themes/bungalowchildtheme/header.php:2) in /home/thecra19/public_html/wp-content/plugins/iq-block-country/libs/blockcountry-checks.php on line 134įorbidden - Users from your country are not permitted to access this site.Robinson Jeffers’ adaptation of Euripides’ Medea was a Broadway hit in the late 1940s. Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/thecra19/public_html/wp-content/themes/bungalowchildtheme/header.php:2) in /home/thecra19/public_html/wp-content/plugins/iq-block-country/libs/blockcountry-checks.php on line 132
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