Literary Figures - Women's Biography, American Women - Literary Biography, U.S. Poets - Literary Biography, U.S. & Canadian Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism
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Overview
As the first book-length collection to focus on Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), this book has become an essential resource on this poet now recognized as one of America's greatest artists. The volume includes essays by David Kalstone, Helen Vendler, and Robert Pinsky, among others; a chronology of short articles and reviews, poems, memoirs, and memorials, many by major poets (among them Bishop's three most notable supporters - Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, and Randall Jarrell); and an illuminating selection of work by Bishop herself.Synopsis
"As the first book-length collection to focus on Elizabeth Bishop, this book has become an essential resource on this poet--now recognized as one of America's greatest artists--whose poetry, as Harold Bloom says in his foreword, stands "at the edge where what is most worth saying is all but impossible to say." The volume includes major essays by David Kalstone, Helen Vendler, and Robert Pinsky, among others; a chronology of short articles and reviews, poems, memoirs, and memorials, many by major poets (among them Bishop's three most notable supporters--Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, and Randall Jarrell); and an illuminating selection of work by Bishop herself, some of which is unavailable anywhere else." -- Publisher's description.Book Details
Published
June 1, 1983
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pages
368
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780472063437