Eros the Bittersweet
| Author | Anne Carson |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Awards | Modern Library: 100 Best Nonfiction Books (Reader's List) |
| ISBN | 9780608027401 |
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986) is the first book of criticism by the Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and classicist Anne Carson.
A reworking of her 1981 doctoral thesis Odi et Amo Ergo Sum ("I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am"), Eros the Bittersweet "laid the groundwork for her subsequent publications, […] formulating the ideas on desire that would come to dominate her poetic output", and establishing her "style of patterning her writings after classical Greek literature".