Notes from Source: While the eruptions of [Carlyle] and [Ezra Pound] were frequent, [Anne Carson] has a quiet manner that suggests the volcano is dormant – for the time being. Carson, 48, was in Toronto recently to deliver a lecture at York University on three women writers – [Sappho], medieval Catholic mystic Margaret of Porete and 20th-century spiritual writer Simone Weil. PETER POWER/TORONTO STAR ANNE CARSON: Classics professor returned to Toronto to deliver a lecture on ancient poet Sappho, medieval mystic Margaret of Porete and 20th-century spiritual writer Simone Weil, who all “treat the relationship of the soul to God within the metaphor of jealousy – ordinary erotic jealousy.”

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