Poet, novelist, and professor Anne Carson, who won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, is sure to reawaken interest in Greek classics just as the movie Homer has done this year. So, we are all going Greek and Latin, Korean and Hungarian, while English looks for a truly original writer—especially with many of the recent Nobels going for translated novels. English literature is being taught a lesson, rightly so. Carson lives at the intersection of different roads, and it is difficult to get a handle on her. She has double citizenship of Canada and Iceland of all countries, knows better Greek than she knows English, and uses poetry and prose as if these are easily interchangeable genres. She mostly scoffs at contemporary........

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