Eros the Bittersweet

By Anne Carson Introduction by Sandra Newman ISBN: 9781628973860 Publication Date: 7/19/2022 Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book. A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Reviews "Anne Carson is a rare talent, brilliant and full of wit, passionate and also deeply moving." —Michael Ondaatje "[Eros] 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 essa