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This collection of essays offers a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction. It celebrates Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and national traditions, including but not limited to the countries she lived in and felt at home. In doing so, it explores how Bishop moves between literal geographies like Nova Scotia, New England, Key...
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"This collection is a magnificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928 when she was seventeen (and already a poet) to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, her editor during her lifetime, has selected over 500 and has written a detailed and informative introduction." "In one sense, Elizabeth Bishop's letters constitute her autobiography, including the story of her...
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Part biography, part critical detective work, and part poet's intuitive insight, this is a fascinating account of Elizabeth Bishop, the person and the poet. Goldensohn conjures up an image which illuminates, the many dualisms and polarities of her subject's life. She charts the complex evolution of Bishop's poetry, looking at the radical breaks and inconsistencies in the process of leading Bishop to the culmination of her late poetry. She demonstrates...
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"Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love...
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In this original study of Elizabeth Bishop's life-long engagement with Christianity, Laurel Snow Corelle illuminates the ways in which Bishop's Protestant childhood and reading of Christian literature, coupled with her deep commitment to agnosticism, inform the works of this former poet laureate of the United States.--[book jacket].
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From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist...
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"Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that 'you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.' The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling 'picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,' and she once begged him, 'Please never stop writing me letters-they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days.' Neither ever stopped...
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Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of cyclic...
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"In God and Elizabeth Bishop, Cheryl Walker explores contemporary religious issues raised by the life and poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, invoking a broad discussion of religious poetry from many traditions. Challenging recent academic practice, Walker suggests that Bishop's work might have particular significance to modern Christians. She reminds the reader of the rich history of religious poetry in the English language while contextualizing the work...
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"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets. Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet -- painfully shy and living out of public view in Key West and Brazil, among other hideaways -- she has never been seen so fully as a woman and an artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving...
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