Elizabeth Bishop

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection
    By Linda Anderson

    "Linda Anderson explores the poetry of 20th-century US author Elizabeth Bishop, from her early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in 'Geography III' and the later uncollected poems."--

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection
    By Linda R. Anderson

    The book begins by offering a new reading of Bishop's relationship with Marianne Moore and with modernism. Through her journeys to Europe Bishop, it is also argued, learned a great deal from visual artists and from surrealism.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss
    By Susan McCabe

    Gilbert, Sandra M, and Susan Gubar. No Man's Land. Vol. 1, The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. . No Man's Land. Vol. 2, Sexchanges. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development
    By Thomas J. Travisano

    This important work is the first book-length critical study of an underrated poet.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss
    By Susan McCabe

    Although Bishop has recently begun to receive the critical attention she deserves, this book uniquely brings loss to the foreground in connection with identity, gender, and the fashioning of a feminist poetics.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of it
    By Brett Candlish Millier

    Traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, discusses her major poems, and looks at how events in her life influenced her writing

  • Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
    By Megan Marshall

    Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist ...

  • Elizabeth Bishop: a Very Short Introduction
    By Jonathan F. S. Post

    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.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)
    By Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Giroux, Lloyd Schwartz

    This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender
    By Marilyn May Lombardi

    This book brings together the work of pioneering scholars in the field- critics who are exploring the psychosexual tensions within Bishop's vision and the uncanny way her poetics of dislocation challenges our assumptions about placement and ...

  • Elizabeth Bishop: The North Haven Journal, 1974-1979
    By Eleanor McPeck

    Poet Elizabeth Bishop's journals during her summers on the island of North Haven, in Maine.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Objects & Apparitions
    By Elizabeth Bishop

    Today established as one of the twentieth century's most important poets, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was also a gifted artist and collector of art and artifacts, many of which were collected...

  • Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
    By Megan Marshall

    A brilliantly rendered life of one of the most admired American poets of the last century, from a Pulitzer Prize−winning author who alternates biography with a memoir of her own days as a young writer in Bishop's famous Harvard poetry ...

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It
    By Brett C. Millier

    Traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, discusses her major poems, and looks at how events in her life influenced her writing

  • Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language
    By Carole Doreski

    This study finds the poems and stories mutually illuminating, but while moving back and forth among her various works, acknowledges the intelligent ordering of the volumes Bishop published in her lifetime.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection
    By Linda Anderson

    The book begins by offering a new reading of Bishop's relationship with Marianne Moore and with modernism. Through her journeys to Europe Bishop, it is also argued, learned a great deal from visual artists and from surrealism.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry
    By Lorrie Goldensohn

    Traces the evolution of Elizabeth Bishop's poetry through her writings, including unpublished and unfinished works, and examines how her work was influenced by her lesbianism and alcoholism

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery
    By Bonnie Costello

    In this finely written companion to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling use of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing.

  • Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
    By Megan Marshall

    A brilliantly rendered life of one of the most admired American poets of the last century, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who alternates biography with a memoir of her own days as a young writer in Bishop's famous Harvard poetry ...

  • Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery
    By Linda R. Anderson, Jo Shapcott

    A collection of essays on Elizabeth Bishop drawing on work presented at the first UK Elizabeth Bishop confrence, held at Newcastle University. It brings together papers by both academic critics...