"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."--
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.
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.
This important work is the first book-length critical study of an underrated poet.
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.
Traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, discusses her major poems, and looks at how events in her life influenced her writing
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 ...
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.
This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist.
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 ...
Poet Elizabeth Bishop's journals during her summers on the island of North Haven, in Maine.
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...
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 ...
Traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, discusses her major poems, and looks at how events in her life influenced her writing
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ...
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...