Elizabeth Bishop and her art / edited by Lloyd Schwartz and Sybil P. Estess ; foreword by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Lloyd, 1941-

Estess, Sybil P., 1942-

Series:

Under discussion

Under discussion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.

Bishop, Elizabeth.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 341 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1983]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 331-341.

ISBN:

0472093436 :

OCLC:

8928532