Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art

by Schwartz, Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780472063437
• ISBN10: 047206343X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Reviews and essays that focus on this great American poet

Table of Contents

Introduction
Critical Essays
Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Memory, Questions of Travel	p. 3
Domestication, Domesticity, and the Otherworldly	p. 32
The Idiom of a Self: Elizabeth Bishop and Wordsworth	p. 49
"In Prison": A Paradox Regained	p. 61
"Old Correspondences": Prosodic Transformations in Elizabeth Bishop	p. 75
A Cold Spring: The Poet of Feeling	p. 96
The Impersonal and the Interrogative in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop	p. 109
One Art: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, 1971-1976	p. 133
Elizabeth Bishop's "Natural Heroism"	p. 154
A Chronology
Archaically New	p. 175
A Modest Expert: North and South	p. 177
On North and South	p. 180
On North and South	p. 182
North but South	p. 184
From "Thomas, Bishop, and Williams"	p. 186
New Verse: North and South	p. 190
"Senhora Helena"	p. 194
From an Interview	p. 197
From "Fifty Years of American Poetry"	p. 198
On "Skunk Hour": How the Poem Was Written	p. 199
From an Interview	p. 200
The Complete Poems	p. 201
On The Complete Poems	p. 206
For Elizabeth Bishop 4	p. 207
Comment on "In the Waiting Room" and Herbert's "Love Unknown"	p. 208
From a Conversation	p. 210
Elizabeth Bishop, or the Power of Reticence	p. 211
On Elizabeth Bishop	p. 214
Invitation to Miss Elizabeth Bishop	p. 216
Description and Imagination in Elizabeth Bishop's "The Map"	p. 219
Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil	p. 223
Her Craft	p. 241
Elizabeth Bishop Introduction	p. 242
Elizabeth Bishop's Mappings of Life	p. 244
Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979	p. 252
Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979	p. 255
Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979	p. 259
Elizabeth Bishop	p. 263
Symposium: I Would Like to Have Written ...	p. 267
In Her Own Words
From "Time's Andromedas"	p. 271
From "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Timing in His Poetry"	p. 273
From Two Letters to Marianne Moore about "A Miracle for Breakfast"	p. 276
From "Gregorio Valdes, 1879-1939"	p. 277
From "As We Like It"	p. 278
Review of XAIPE: Seventy-one Poems by E. E. Cummings	p. 280
It All Depends [In Response to a Questionnaire]	p. 281
From "What the Young Man Said to the Psalmist"	p. 282
From "The Manipulation of Mirrors"	p. 283
From Introduction to The Diary of "Helena Morley"	p. 284
On Life Studies by Robert Lowell	p. 285
On "The Man-Moth"	p. 286
On Flannery O'Connor	p. 287
The "Darwin" Letter	p. 288
An Interview with Elizabeth Bishop	p. 289
On "Confessional Poetry"	p. 303
An Inadequate Tribute	p. 304
On "The Burglar of Babylon"	p. 305
Lines Written in a Copy of Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Given to Frank Bidart	p. 306
On Golden State by Frank Bidart	p. 307
From "A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute"	p. 308
From Book-of-the-Month Club Interview	p. 309
Statement for the English Memorial Service for Robert Lowell	p. 311
"The Work!": A Conversation with Elizabeth Bishop	p. 312
Bibliography	p. 331
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