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a b "Margaret Atwood, Kim Thúy and Anne Carson nominated for alternative Nobel Prize". CBC. 12 July 2018. Archived from the original on 18 November 2022 . Retrieved 17 October 2020. July 2015). "A Rehearsal for Life". The Times Literary Supplement: 15 . Retrieved 9 September 2020.

Carson, Anne (June 2010). "Prometheus Bound: An Excerpt from the Play by Aischylos". The Wolf (23): 6–7. Bloom, Harold; Lehman, David, eds. (1998). "Anne Carson". The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. New York: Scribner Poetry. p.307. ISBN 0-684-84779-5 . Retrieved 17 July 2020. These young men—cousins no less—have been taken to represent the conflict between reason and irrationality, but Carson emphasizes how they could also be seen as near duplicates in their parallel struggles with rites of passage. While Dionysos must prove himself to be the godly son of Zeus, Pentheus is shaped by the absence of his own father, Echion. And whereas Dionysos has gone without any maternal presence, Pentheus has perhaps been smothered by the love of his mother and aunts. Early on it becomes apparent that the dueling yet analogous insecurities of these power-hungry teenagers will provide the germ of Carson’s character-driven interpretation. Fall 1997). "Shadowboxer". Chicago Review. 43 (4 – Contemporary Poets & Poetics): 137. doi: 10.2307/25304222. JSTOR 25304222.August 2005). "Two Translations of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' 1072-1330". London Review of Books. 27 (16): 12 . Retrieved 9 September 2020. Summer 1998). "TV Men: Thucydides in Conversation with Virginia Woolf on the Set of The Peloponnesian War". The Threepenny Review (74): 26. JSTOR 4384739.

August 2022). "What I Like about You, Baby". London Review of Books. 44 (15) . Retrieved 17 October 2022. Wilkinson, Joshua Marie, ed. (2015). Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-05253-0. One of Carson’s greatest achievements is her portrayal of the psychological destruction that occurs when the world of humans collides with the world of the gods. The play’s principal human is Pentheus, the adolescent king of Thebes; its principal god is Dionysos, a fellow beardless youth and the son of Semele, a Theban woman impregnated by Zeus and later killed by a jealous Hera. After her death, Semele’s sisters, including Agave, Pentheus’ mother, accused her of lying about the child’s father and proceeded to deny Dionysos’ godly stature. In retaliation, he has returned to Thebes and driven all of its women mad with a bakkhic spell. Pentheus, the hotheaded disbeliever, will be his next project. Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1950. A high-school encounter with a Latin instructor, who agreed to teach her ancient Greek over the lunch hour, led to her passionate embrace of classical and Hellenic literature, influences which mark her work still. Carson attended the University of Toronto, though she dropped out twice before earning her BA, MA and PhD in Classics. Carson has taught at many universities in both the US and Canada, including McGill and the University of Michigan. Her publishing career began with Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986) , which also established Carson’s style of patterning her writings after classical Greek literature. Such works as Glass, Irony, and God (1992), Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (1995) and Men in the Off Hours (2001) have helped seal the author’s reputation as unique among contemporary poets. But perhaps the most widely received examples of her particular specialty are Carson’s verse novels, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) and The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001) . Jansen, Laura, ed. (2021). Anne Carson/ Antiquity. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-17475-7. Archived from the original on 2021-10-07 . Retrieved 2021-10-07.February 2011). " 'Merce Sonnet', 'Sonnet of the English-Made Cabinet with Drawers (in Prose)' ". London Review of Books. 33 (3): 8 . Retrieved 9 September 2020. The 2012 Prize". The London Hellenic Prize. Archived from the original on 30 December 2020 . Retrieved 12 September 2020. Weiss, Renée; Weiss, Theodore (eds.). "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings: A Translation of the Fragments of Mimnermos of Kolophon". Quarterly Review of Literature. Contemporary Poetry Series 12. Princeton. 32–33: 94–104.

Carson's first book of poetry – 1984's Canicula di Anna [13] – garnered her first literary prize: the Quarterly Review of Literature Betty Colladay Award. [14] [15] Acclaim for her first book of essays, Eros the Bittersweet, grew in the fifteen years after it was published in 1986: the book "first stunned the classics community as a work of Greek scholarship; then it stunned the nonfiction community as an inspired return to the lyrically based essays once produced by Seneca, Montaigne, and Emerson; and then, and only then, deep into the 1990s, reissued as 'literature' and redesigned for an entirely new audience, it finally stunned the poets." [16] By the turn of the millennium, Eros the Bittersweet had also entered into the popular consciousness, voted onto the 1999 Modern Library Reader's List for the 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century, [17] and mentioned (along with Autobiography of Red) in a 2004 episode of the television series The L Word. [18] Meyer, Paul (2016). " blue for (On Metonymns in Anne Carson)". She] (Ha?) She – The Canicula di Anna : A Fractal Approach (PDF). Toronto: University of Toronto. p.163. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 March 2023 . Retrieved 26 August 2020. While at Princeton Anne Carson taught (as Instructor and later Assistant Professor) the following courses: The Anti-Augustans: Ovid and the Elegists; Introduction to Augustan Literature; Beginner's Latin Continued: Basic Prose; The Lyric Age of Greece; and Greek Drama in Translation.a b "Anne Carson: Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2020". Fundación Princesa de Asturias. Archived from the original on 15 September 2020 . Retrieved 18 June 2020. April 2002). "Ode to the Sublime Monica Vitti". London Review of Books. 24 (8): 8 . Retrieved 8 September 2020. D'Agata, John (Summer 1997). "A ___ with Anne Carson". The Iowa Review. 27 (2): 1–22. doi: 10.17077/0021-065X.4868 . Retrieved 12 July 2020.