Title: Economy of the unlost
First published: 1999
Description: "The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose "economies" of language are notorious.

Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved, Carson reveals the two poets' striking commonalities."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Aesthetics, Comparative Literature, Criticism and interpretation, Economics in literature, German and Greek, Greek and German, Literature, Comparative, Comparative literature, german and greek, Greek literature, history and criticism, Simonides, approximately 556 b.c.-467 b.c.
People: Paul Celan (1920-1970), Simonides (ca. 556-467 B.C)
LC classification: PA4411 .C37 1999