Narrow People, Second Thoughts

A Conceited, Presumptuous, Failed Review of Anne Carson's Wrong Norma, part II

When I was a grad student in English lit, I focused on a period called the Long Eighteenth Century. There were a lot of classical references, so I picked up some knowledge of those texts and personages, and internalized the idea that such knowledge was useful, even good for you. So I’m drawn to Carson’s idiosyncratic inter-animation of ancient and conte…