Description
Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the bestloved poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century This Very Short Introduction explores the ninety or so published poems that are at the core of her remarkable canon of verse Drawing on biographical and critical material Jonathan Post also makes frequent use of Bishops letters and commentary by fellow poets including Marianne Moore Robert Lowell and James Merrill to illuminate her writing and contemporary landscape
Throughout Post places Bishops lyric poetry alongside her other poetic genres short stories and translations within the context of her life and aesthetic values showing how these shaped her work Ranging across her poems the book covers a wide range of core themes including Bishops powerful use of description the environment balance and ideas of love and loss as well as looking at Bishops interest in the visual arts
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