Elizabeth Bishop
Author
Series
Library of America volume 180
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
3) Prose
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Bishop's prose is not as well-known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer, too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories often border on memoir, and vice versa. From her college days, she could find the most astonishing yet thoroughly apt metaphors to illuminate her ideas. This volume--edited by the poet, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz--includes virtually all her...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Traces the artistic development of the award-winning poet as reflected by her literary relationship with "The New Yorker" throughout the mid-twentieth century, drawing on hundreds of letters to her editors that discussed her inspiration and experiences.
5) Poems
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike. The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display honesty and humor, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape--from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived--...
Publisher
Annenberg Media
Pub. Date
200-]
Language
English
Description
The lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatic readings, archival photographs, dance, performances, and interviews in this inspiring series. Illustrative poems in each program are accompanied by insights into their historical and cultural connections.The series covers the terminology of poetry and the larger role of poets in American and world literature studies.