Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles’ luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author, “Dear Antigone.”
A New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year ‘She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism.’ - Teju Cole, Observer Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our perspectives. With Float, she goes further
"Although she lived on the Greek island of Lesbos in the seventh century B.C.E., the universal feelings that Sappho expressed still connect us, human to human, across the ages. It seems improbable that a new version of ancient writings could shed new light, but Barnstone's translation of Sappho
The Bronte sisters published anonymously, in 1846, a little volume of verse with tfie title Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. This, however, was only a selection from their manuscripts, and much remained. Charlotte Bronte, in 1850, after the death of her sisters, Emily and Anne, revised their
