Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy

by Victoria Harrison

Book Overview

By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and postmodern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Bishop's career, dividing Bishop's work into three chronological periods of activity: her early work, her writing in Brazil, and her late retrospective verse. By examining letters and notebooks, Harrison unfolds the biographical events that influenced Bishop's poetic style,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521062128
• ISBN13: 9780521062121
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"