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Born in February 8, 1911 / Died in October 6, 1979 / United States / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

  • Bishop, Elizabeth, and George Monteiro, Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop (interviews), University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1996.
  • Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Brower, Reuben A., editor, Twentieth-Century Literature in Retrospect, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1971.
  • Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, Volume 2: American Poets, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1986.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 1, 1973, Volume 4, 1975, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 13, 1980, Volume 15, 1980, Volume 32, 1985.
  • Contemporary Poetry in America, edited by Robert Boyers, Schocken (New York, NY), 1974.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.
  • Fountain, Gary, and Peter Brazeau, Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1994.
  • Frankenberg, Lloyd, Pleasure Dome: On Reading Modern Poetry, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1949.
  • Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Travelling between the Wars, Oxford University Press, 1980.
  • Gay and Lesbian Biography, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1997.
  • Jarrell, Randall, Poetry and the Age, Random House (New York, NY), 1953.
  • Jarrell, Randall, Third Book of Criticism, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Kalstone, David, Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • Lombardi, Marilyn May, The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, IL), 1995.
  • MacMahon, Candace, editor, Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography, 1927-1979, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1980.
  • Mazzaro, Jerome, Postmodern American Poetry, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 1980.
  • McCabe, Susan, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 1994.
  • Millier, Brett C., Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, University of California Press, 1995.
  • Molesworth, Charles, The Fierce Embrace: A Study of Contemporary American Poetry, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1979.
  • Pinsky, Robert, The Situation of Poetry, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1976.
  • Poet's Choice, edited by Paul Engle and Joseph Langland, Dial (New York, NY), 1962.
  • Rosenthal, M. L., The Modern Poets, Oxford University Press, 1960.
  • Schwartz, Lloyd, and Sybil P. Estess, editors, Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1983.
  • Shigley, Sally Bishop, Dazzling Dialectics: Elizabeth Bishop's Resonating Feminist Reality, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1997.
  • Stepanchev, Stephen, American Poetry since 1945: A Critical Survey, Harper (New York, NY), 1965.
  • Stevenson, Anne, Elizabeth Bishop, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1966.
  • Swenson, May, Dear Elizabeth: Five Poems and Three Letters to Elizabeth Bishop, Utah State University Press (Logan, UT), 2000.
  • Vendler, Helen, Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1980.
  • von Hallberg, Robert, American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1985.
  • Winslow, Ann, editor, Trial Balances, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1935.
  • Wylie, Diana E., Elizabeth Bishop and Howard Nemerov: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1983.

PERIODICALS

  • America, February 19, 1994, p. 21.
  • American Literature, March, 1982; October, 1983.
  • American Poetry Review, March-April, 1978; January-February, 1980; January-February, 1985.
  • Antaeus, winter-spring, 1981.
  • Antioch Review, summer, 1981.
  • Arizona Quarterly, Volume 32, 1976; winter, 1982.
  • Atlantic, January, 1966.
  • Bloomsbury Review, November-December, 1996, p. 5.
  • Books Abroad, winter, 1967.
  • Book Week, February 20, 1966.
  • Book World, April 27, 1969.
  • Boston Review, April, 1983.
  • Canadian Literature, autumn, 2000, Richard Sanger, "High Seas: Elizabeth Bishop Returns Home," p. 113.
  • Canadian Poetry, fall-winter, 1980.
  • Canto, winter, 1977.
  • Centennial Review, winter, 1978; winter, 1981.
  • Chicago Review, Volume 18, numbers 3-4, 1966.
  • Chicago Tribune Book World, April 1, 1984.
  • Christian Science Monitor, January 6, 1966.
  • CLA Journal, June, 2000, Zhou Xiaojing, "'Constant Readjustment' 'Experience-Time' in Elizabeth Bishop's Poems," p. 420.
  • College English, February, 1959.
  • Commonweal, February 15, 1957.
  • Contemporary Literature, winter, 1971; fall, 1984; summer, 1985; summer, 1999, Bethany Hicok, "Elizabeth Bishop's 'Queer Birds': Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community," p. 286.
  • Dublin Magazine, January-March, 1957.
  • Encounter, December, 1983.
  • Explicator, spring, 2000, Kathleen More, "Bishop's 'Cape Breton,'" p. 161.
  • Field, fall, 1984.
  • George Herbert Journal, spring, 1982.
  • Grand Street, autumn, 1983.
  • Hollins Critic, February, 1977.
  • Hudson Review, autumn, 1956.
  • Independent Sunday (London, England), September 14, 1997, Lavinia Greenlaw, review of Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop, p. 34.
  • Iowa Review, winter, 1979.
  • Kenyon Review, Volume 19, number 2, 1957; Volume 28, number 2, 1966.
  • Library Journal, September 1, 2000, Rochelle Ratner, review of Elizabeth Bishop (audio cassette), p. 274.
  • Life, July 4, 1969.
  • Listener, November 30, 1967; June 2, 1983.
  • London Magazine, March 1968.
  • London Review of Books, May 7, 1984.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 17, 1983; February 19, 1984.
  • Massachusetts Review, autumn, 1970; autumn, 1982; summer, 1983.
  • Michigan Quarterly Review, winter, 1977.
  • Modern Poetry Studies, winter, 1975; spring, 1977; winter, 1977.
  • Mosaic (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), June, 2000, Ernesto Suarez-Toste, "Une Machine a Coudre Manuelle: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Everyday Surrealism,'" p. 143.
  • Nation, September 28, 1946.
  • New England Quarterly, June, 1956; December, 1984.
  • New Leader, December 6, 1965; May 9, 1994, p. 14.
  • New Republic, October 21, 1946; April 9, 1966; February 5, 1977; November 10, 1979; April 4, 1983; March 19, 1984; August 8, 1994, p. 29.
  • New Statesman, April 6, 1984.
  • Newsweek, January 31, 1977; March 14, 1982; February 13, 1984.
  • New Yorker, October 5, 1946; October 8, 1955; May 29, 1978; September 30, 1991, p. 85; March 28, 1994, p. 82.
  • New York Herald Tribune Book Review, September 4, 1955.
  • New York Review of Books, October 12, 1967; June 9, 1977; January 13, 1994, p. 15; June 9, 1994, p. 39.
  • New York Times, January 22, 1977; December 13, 1981, Paul L. Montgomery, "Vassar Acquires Papers of the Poet Elizabeth Bishop," p. 39; February 12, 1983; January 5, 1984; July 8, 2001, Margo Jefferson, "We Are All Tourists," p. 27; August 6, 2001, Larry Rohter, "Brazilian Renaissance for an American Poet," p. E1.
  • New York Times Book Review, July 17, 1955; May 5, 1968; January 7, 1973; February 6, 1977; December 3, 1978; February 27, 1983, David Bromwich, review of The Complete Poems, and "Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art," p. 7; January 15, 1984; April 17, 1994, p. 1.
  • Observer (London), April 8, 1984; April 24, 1995, p. 24.
  • Paris Review, summer, 1981.
  • Parnassus, spring-summer, 1973; fall-winter, 1976; spring-summer, 1977.
  • Partisan Review, winter, 1956; spring, 1970.
  • Ploughshares, Volume 2, number 4, 1975; Volume 3, numbers 3 and 4, 1977; Volume 5, number 1, 1979; Volume 6, number 2, 1980.
  • PN Review, February, 1984.
  • Poetry, December, 1955; March, 1979; December, 1990, p. 159.
  • Poetry Review, June, 1983.
  • Publishers Weekly, July 7, 1945.
  • Raritan, summer, 1984; winter, 2000, Anne Ferry, "The Anthologizing of Elizabeth Bishop," p. 37.
  • Restaurants & Institutions, June 15, 1999, Jennifer McGeary, "Vintage Memories," p. 22.
  • Salmagundi, summer-fall, 1974.
  • Saturday Review, January 18, 1958.
  • Sewanee Review, summer, 1947; spring, 1978; winter, 1998, review of Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop, p. R18.
  • Shenandoah, Volume 17, number 2, 1966; Volume 33, number 1, 1981-82.
  • South Atlantic Quarterly, summer, 1983.
  • South Carolina Review, November, 1977.
  • Southern Review, autumn, 1977.
  • Style, fall, 2000, Martin Bidney, "'Controlled Panic': Mastering the Terrors of Dissolution and Isolation in Elizabeth Bishop's Epiphanies," p. 487.
  • Time, April 25, 1994, p. 82.
  • Times Literary Supplement, November 23, 1967; March 7, 1980; August 28, 1981; June 3, 1983; April 27, 1984; February 20, 1998, review of Exchanging Hats, p. 36.
  • Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), April 24, 1994, p. 19.
  • Twentieth-Century Literature, Volume 11, number 4, 1966; Volume 28, number 4, 1982.
  • Utne Reader, May-June, 1999, Edward Hirsch, "How to Read a Poem," p. 89.
  • Vanity Fair, June, 1983.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, spring, 1966; autumn, 1969; spring, 1984.
  • Wall Street Journal, January 12, 1984, Ellen Wilson, review of The Collected Prose, p. 22.
  • Washington Post Book World, February 20, 1983; May 1, 1994, p. 5.
  • World Literature Today, winter, 1977.
  • Young Readers Review, September, 1968.

OTHER

  • Academy of American Poets Web site, http://www.poets.org/ (September 10, 2001), "Elizabeth Bishop."
  • Bold Type, http://www.randomhouse.com/ (September 10, 2001), Ernie Hilbert, "Elizabeth Bishop."

OBITUARIES:

PERIODICALS

  • Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1979.
  • New York Times, October 8, 1979.
  • Publishers Weekly, October 22, 1979.