{"id":878722,"date":"2026-10-11T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878722\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:20:09","slug":"anne-carson-and-the-beauty-of-the-unsaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878722\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Carson and the Beauty of the Unsaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have heard of Anne Carson before she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. But if you\u2019ve ever come across any verse by Sappho, the grande dame of ancient Greek literature, you may well have read it in a translation from Carson\u2019s 2002 collection, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/93116\/9780375724510\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If Not, Winter<\/a>. I first encountered Carson\u2019s work when I read her rendition of a poem that means more to me than almost any other in the world\u2014the Sappho poem known simply as \u201cFragment 31.\u201d It\u2019s among Western literature\u2019s most valuable treasures.<\/p>\n<p>Sappho is one of those artists who deserves every bit of her awesome reputation. Much of her work was preserved only partially, in quotations or on torn and decayed slips of papyrus. We can read \u201cFragment 31\u201d today because it was quoted incompletely, but at length, by the literary critic Longinus. In its surviving form, it has four short stanzas, plus an extra line to hint that there once was more. But even those brief words demonstrate why some ancient readers called Sappho \u201cThe 10th Muse,\u201d numbering her among the mythical goddesses of song and literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You may not have heard of Anne Carson before she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-878722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}