Elizabeth Bishop at Work

by Eleanor Cook

Book Overview

In her lifetime Elizabeth Bishop was appreciated as a writer's writer (John Ashbery once called her "the writer's writer's writer"). But since her death in 1979 her reputation has grown, and today she is recognized as a major twentieth-century poet. Critics and biographers now habitually praise Bishop's mastery of her art, but all too often they have little to say about how her poetry does its sublime work--in the ear and in the mind's eye.

Elizabeth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067466017X
• ISBN13: 9780674660175
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"