Description
A brilliant, genre-defying work of literary criticism, this book places the ancient Greek poet Simonides of Keos in conversation with the twentieth-century poet Paul Celan. Moving between antiquity and modernity, it explores how poetry responds to loss, exile, memory, translation, and the fragile economies of language and survival. Through unexpected parallels and sharply observed contrasts, the study reveals how two poets separated by centuries confront the tension between what can be preserved and what remains irretrievably unlost. Erudite, associative, and richly poetic in its own right, it exemplifies a distinctive method of reading that holds multiple perspectives in productive tension.
Available Editions
paperback
Princeton University Press
Published Jan 1, 1999
147 pages
ISBN: 0691036772
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Details
First Published
1999
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson.