Elizabeth Bishop: a Very Short Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 0198851413
- ISBN-13
- 9780198851417
- Series
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Category
- Women poets, American
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-03-24
- Author
- Jonathan F. S. Post
Description
Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.
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