Elizabeth Bishop at Work /

Elizabeth Bishop at Work / / Eleanor Cook.

Critics and biographers praise Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry but have little to say about how it does its sublime work—in the ear and in the mind’s eye. Eleanor Cook examines in detail Bishop’s diction, syntax, rhythm, and meter, her acute sense of place, and her attention to the natural world. Writers,...

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Cook, Eleanor,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Land, Water, Fire, Air: Two Poems
  • 2. Elizabeth Bishop’s Ordinary Diction — Yes, But...
  • 3. On the Move: From New York to Key West, via France
  • 4. Diction on the Move
  • 5. Rhythms of A Cold Spring
  • 6. Kinds of Travel, Kinds of Home, Kinds of Poem: Questions of Travel
  • 7. Brief Interlude on Genre
  • 8. Geography III
  • 9. Late Poems
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index to Bishop’s Poems, Stories, and Essays
  • General Index

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