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==Early life and education== Anne Carson was born in Toronto on June 21, 1950.<ref name=":0" /> Her father was a banker and she grew up in a number of small Canadian towns.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Carson |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Carson |access-date=2 July 2022 |archive-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702210552/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Carson |url-status=live }}</ref> In high school, a Latin instructor introduced Carson to the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored her privately.<ref name="LitEncyc">{{cite web |last1=Rae |first1=Ian |title=Anne Carson |url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=758 |website=The Literary Encyclopedia |access-date=16 September 2020 |date=27 December 2001 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916195706/https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=758 |url-status=live }}</ref> Enrolling at [[University of St. Michael's College|St. Michael's College]] at the [[University of Toronto]], she left twice—at the end of her first and second years. Carson, disconcerted by curricular constraints (particularly by a required course on [[John Milton|Milton]]), retired to the world of graphic arts for a short time.<ref name="LitEncyc" /> She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1974, her [[Master of Arts]] in 1975, and her [[PhD|Ph.D.]] in 1981.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ross |first1=Val |author-link1=Val Ross |title=Alumni: Classic Carson |journal=University of Toronto Magazine |date=23 March 2001 |url=https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/about-anne-carson-poetry/ |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=16 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916170640/https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/about-anne-carson-poetry/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She also spent a year studying Greek metrics and Greek textual criticism at the [[University of St Andrews]].<ref name="Cove Park">{{cite journal |last1=Munoz |first1=Theresa |title=Theresa Munoz and Anne Carson at Cove Park |journal=Scottish Review of Books |date=9 October 2013 |url=https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2013/10/theresa-munoz-and-anne-carson-at-cove-park/ |access-date=16 September 2020 |archive-date=17 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917010613/https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2013/10/theresa-munoz-and-anne-carson-at-cove-park/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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