Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century: Reading the New Editions

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Angus J. Cleghorn, Bethany Hicok, Thomas Travisano
University of Virginia Press, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 310 pages

In recent years, a series of major collections of posthumous writings by Elizabeth Bishop--one of the most widely read and discussed poets of the twentieth century--have been published, profoundly affecting how we look at her life and work. The hundreds of letters, poems, and other writings in these volumes have expanded Bishop's published work by well over a thousand pages and placed before the public a "new" Bishop whose complexity was previously familiar to only a small circle of scholars and devoted readers. This collection of essays by many of the leading figures in Bishop studies provides a deep and multifaceted account of the impact of these new editions and how they both enlarge and complicate our understanding of Bishop as a cultural icon.

Contributors: Charles Berger, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville * Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, University of Notre Dame * Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College * Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield * Richard Flynn, Georgia Southern University * Lorrie Goldensohn * Jeffrey Gray, Seton Hall University * Bethany Hicok, Westminster College * George Lensing, University of North Carolina * Carmen L. Oliveira * Barbara Page, Vassar College * Christina Pugh, University of Illinois at Chicago * Francesco Rognoni, Catholic University in Milan * Peggy Samuels, Drew University * Lloyd Schwartz, University of Massachusetts, Boston * Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College * Heather Treseler, Worcester State University * Gillian White, University of Michigan

 

Contents

List of Abbreviations
Uncollected PoemsJONATHAN ELLIS
Bone Key and Pleasure SeasANGUS
Bishops Notebook LetterPoemsHEATHER
That Sense of Constant
Elizabeth Bishop at Home Not at Home
Elizabeth Bishop and Alexander CalderPEGGY
Elizabeth Bishops Visits to
Bishop Lowell and the Aesthetics of Autobiographical
An Essay
Speculative BibliographyTHOMAS TRAVISANO
ReFormationsJACQUELINE VAUGHT BROGAN
United StatesGILLIAN WHITE
Bibliography
Index
Copyright

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