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Bishop, Elizabeth - 1911–79, American poet, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Vassar, 1934. During the 1950s and 1960s she lived in Brazil, eventually returning to her native New England, where she taught at Harvard (1970–77). Her first volume of poetry, North and South (1946), was reprinted with additions as North and South—A Cold Spring (1955; Pulitzer Prize). Her poetic vision is


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    Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography » Read Now

    by Peter Brazeau, Gary Fountain. 410 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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    Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language » Read Now

    by C. K. Doreski. 182 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This illuminating study examines Elizabeth Bishop's rhetorical strategies and the way they shape the formal and thematic movements of her poetry and stories. Unlike other recent studies of Bishop, Doreski's does not concern itself primarily with her visual imagery, but rather deals with her poetry...
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    The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics » Read Now

    by Marilyn May Lombardi. 270 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    'The aim of The Body And The Song--to offer the reader fresh perspective on the complex relation between soma and psyche in fashioning and framing a poem--is important and furthers scholarship and interpretation in Bishop studies.
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    Brazil » Read Now

    by Elizabeth Bishop. 163 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity » Read Now

    by Joanne Feit Diehl. 119 pgs.

    This highly innovative work on poetic influence among women writers focuses on the relationship between modernist poet Elizabeth Bishop and her mentor Marianne Moore. Departing from Freudian models of influence theory that ignore the question of maternal presence, Joanne Diehl applies the...
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    Stein, Bishop & Rich: Lyrics of Love, War & Place » Read Now

    by Margaret Dickie. 234 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Council on interpretation. 6. Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979--Criticism and...59 4 Half Is Enough: Elizabeth Bishops Love Poetry 82 5...and Class 104 6 Elizabeth Bishops What...
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    White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness » Read Now

    by Renee R. Curry. 184 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Just as the cultural background of readers shapes how they respond to texts, the context in which writers live shapes what they write. This book explores the relationship between three prominent twentieth-century American white women poets and the manifestations of whiteness in their works. The book...
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    Modern Poetry after Modernism (Chap. Two "Elizabeth Bishop's Bramble Bushes" and Chap. Three "Elizabeth Bishop's Social Conscience") » Read Now

    by James Longenbach. 209 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...poetry cannot account for Elizabeth Bishops career; it grew from my realization...Poetry? 3 TWO Elizabeth Bishops Bramble Bushes 22 THREE Elizabeth Bishops Social...
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    What's Left of Theory? New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory (Chap. 7 "Picturing Pleasure: Some Poems by Elizabeth Bishop") » Read Now

    by Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas. 292 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory? is a vigorous engagement with the question : how today are theory and progressive thought connected? This book brings together not only...
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    American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)" begins on p. 25) » Read Now

    by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a...

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