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Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind

Anne Carson, poet, essayist, and translator

November 4, 2025 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 50 McCosh Hall

Department of Classics; Department of Comparative Literature; Humanities Council

We are delighted to welcome world-renowned poet, essayist, translator, and classicist Anne Carson to Princeton to deliver the eighth annual Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts.

A public reception will follow in Chancellor Green Rotunda.

Support for the Fagles Lecture is given in memory of Robert Fagles and has been provided in part by Princeton University’s Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, Humanities Council, Public Lectures Committee, Program in Humanistic Studies, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

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