WRITER

Anne Carson

1950 - Today

Anne Carson

Anne Patricia Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Carson has received more than 608,289 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anne Carson is the 2,957th most popular writer (up from 4,269th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Canada (up from 307th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

610k
Page Views (PV)
53.10
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
27
Languages Editions (L)
5.22
Effective Languages (L*)
3.09
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

British and irish drama, Classical Literature, Conflict of generations

2002

The Beauty of the Husband

Married people, Poetry, Fiction

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice--29 "tangos" of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects--love--and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.From the Hardcover edition.

2001

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience

freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment

1999

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition

Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime

Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) by Ambrose Bierce ... - [A Pair of Silk Stockings](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078930W/A_Pair_of_Silk_Stockings) by Kate Chopin - [The Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) - [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) - [The Glass Menagerie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30293W) by Tennesse Williams

1985

Men in the off hours

Poetry (poetic works by one author)

2000

Eros the Bittersweet

Literature, Love

1989

Page views of Anne Carsons by language

Over the past year Anne Carson has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 86,529 views, followed by Spanish (14,754), and Italian (5,413). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (146.55%), Japanese (99.24%), and Portuguese (61.09%)