Book description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Eros the Bittersweet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet who wonderfully expresses the trauma associated with loving another person, the angst of a failing relationship, and the bittersweet emotions once the relationship has ended.
Most everyone who has fallen in love and lost cannot help but relate to the words in her poems.
From Harold's list on poems written by Canadians madly in love.
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