Elizabeth Bishop

Bibliography

Primary Sources:

Verse:

• North & SouthBoston: Houghton, 1946.

 

• Poems: North & South-A Cold Spring.Boston: Houghton, 1955.

 

• Poems.London: Chatto & Windus, 1956.

 

• Questions of Travel.New York: Farrar, 1965.

 

• Selected Poems.London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.

 

• The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon.New York: Farrar, 1968.

 

• The Complete Poems.New York: Farrar, 1969.

 

• Geography III.New York: Farrar, 1976.

 

 

• The Complete Poems 1927-1979.New York: Farrar, 1983.

 

Prose:

• Brasil.Time-Life, 1962.

 

• The Collected Prose.New York: Farrar, 1984.

 

Art:

• Exchanging Hats: Paintings.Ed. William Benton. New York: Farrar, 1996.

 

Letters:

• One Art: Elizabeth Bishop's Letters.Ed. Robert Giroux. New York: Farrar, 1994

 

Translations:

• An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry. Trans. ed. and intro. by Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil.Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 1972.

 

• The Diary of "Helena Morley."Trans. ed. and intro. by Elizabeth Bishop of Alice Brant's novelNew York: Farrar, 1957.

 

Secondary Sources

• Ashbery, John. "The Complete Poems."Bloom Bishop 5-8.

 

• ---."Second Presentation to the Jury."World Literature Today 1 (Winter 1977): 8-10.

 

• Benton, William. "Introduction and notes."Bishop Exchanging Hats: Paintings vii-xx.

 

• Bidart, Frank. "On Elizabeth Bishop."Schwartz and Estess 214-15.

 

• Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Elizabeth Bishop.New York: Chelsea, 1985.

 

• Booth, Philip. "The Poet as Voyager."Christian Science Monitor 58 (6 January 1966): 10.

 

• Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught. "Elizabeth Bishop: Perversity as Voice."Lombardi Bishop 196-211.

 

• Brown, Ashley. "An Interview with Elizabeth Bishop."Monteiro 18-32.

 

• Corn, Alfred. Review of Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III.Georgia Review 31 (1977): 533-37.

 

• Costello, Bonnie. Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery.Cambridge and London: Harvard UP, 1991.

 

• Davison, Peter. "The Gilt Edge of Reputation."The Atlantic Monthly 217 (January 1966): 85.

 

• Dickie, Margaret. "Race and Class in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry."Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 44-58.

 

• Dodd, Elizabeth. The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet.Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1992.

 

• Erkkila, Betsy. "Elizabeth Bishop, Modernism, and the Left."American Literary History 8.2 (Summer 1996): 284-310.

 

• ---. The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord.Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.

 

• Farley, Eileen. "Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Visits UW."Monteiro 54-56.

 

• Fountain, Gary, and Peter Brazeau. Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography.Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1994.

 

• Ford, Mark. "Mount d'Espoir or Mount Despair: Early Bishop, Early Ashbery, and the French."Kelly 9-28.

 

• Giroux, Robert. "Chronology and Introduction." One Art: Elizabeth Bishop's Letters.New York: Farrar, 1994. vii-xxv.

 

• Goldensohn, Lorrie. Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry.New York: Columbia UP, 1992.

 

• Hammer, Langdon. "The New Elizabeth Bishop."Yale Review 82.1 (1994): 135-49.

 

• Handa, Carolyn Patricia. "Vision and Change: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop."American Poetry 3.2 (1986): 18-34.

 

• Harrison, Victoria. Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy.Cambridge: UP, 1993.

 

• Honig, Edwin. "Poetry Chronicle."Partisan Review 23 (Winter 1956): 115-17.

 

• Jarrell, Randall. "On North & South."Schwartz and Estess 180-81.

 

• Jefferson, Margo. "The Map Maker."Newsweek 89 (31 January 1977): 73.

 

• Johnson, Alexandra. "Geography of the Imagination."Monteiro 98-104.

 

• Kalstone, David. Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell.New York: Farrar, 1989.

 

• ---. "Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery, Questions of Travel."Schwartz and Estess 3-31.

 

• ---. "Reading Contemporary Poetry: An Example from Elizabeth Bishop."Ts. hosted at VCEBSC.

 

• Keller, Lynn. Re-making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition.New York: Cambridge UP, 1987.

 

• ---. "Words Worth a Thousand Postcards: The Bishop / Moore Correspondence."American Literature 55 (1983): 405-29.

 

• Kelly, Lionel, ed. Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery.Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

 

• Laurans, Penelope. "Old Correspondences: Prosodic Transformations in Elizabeth Bishop."Schwartz and Estess 75-95.

 

• Lombardi, Marilyn May. "The Closet of Breath: Elizabeth Bishop, Her Body and Her Art."Twentieth Century Literature 38.2 (Summer 1992): 152-75.

 

• ---, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender.Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1993.

 

• Longenbach, James. "Elizabeth Bishop's Social Conscience."ELH 62:2 (Summer 1995): 467-86.

 

• MacMahon, Candance. Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography 1927-1979.Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1980.

 

• McCabe, Susan. Elizabeth Bishop. Her Poetics of Loss.University Park, PA: Penn State UP, 1994.

 

• ---. "Stevens, Bishop, and Ashbery: A Surrealist Lineage."Wallace Stevens Journal 22.2 (Fall 1998): 149-68.

 

• McCorkle, James. The Still Performance: Writing, Self, and Interconnection in Five Postmodern American Poets.Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1989.

 

• McNeil, Helen. "Elizabeth Bishop." Voices and Visions. Ed. Helen Vendler.New York: Random, 1987. 394-425.

 

• Messenger, Cynthia. "'But How Do You Write a Chagall?': Ekphrasis and the Brazilian Poetry of P.K. Page and Elizabeth Bishop."Canadian Literature 142-143 (Fall-Winter 1994): 102-17.

 

• Millier, Brett Candlish. Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It.Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1993.

 

• Monteiro, George, ed. Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop.Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996.

 

• Moore, Marianne. "A Modest Expert."Schwartz and Estess 177-79.

 

• ---. "Archaically New."Schwartz and Estess 175-76.

 

• Mullen, Richard. "Elizabeth Bishop's Surrealist Inheritance."American Literature 54.1 (March 1982): 63-80.

 

• Nash, Mildred. "Elizabeth Bishop's Library: A Reminiscence."Monteiro 133-38.

 

• Nemerov, Howard. "The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop."Poetry December 1955: 179-80.

 

• Page, Barbara. "Off-Beat Claves, Oblique Realities: The Key West Notebooks of Elizabeth Bishop."Lombardi Bishop 196-211.

 

• Palattella, John. "'That Sense of Constant Re-Adjustment': The Great Depression and the Provisional Politics of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South."Contemporary Literature 34:1 (Spring 1993): 18-43.

 

• Paton, Priscilla M. "Landscape and Female Desire: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Closet Tactics.'"Mosaic 31.3 (September 1998): 133-52.

 

• Paz, Octavio. "Elizabeth Bishop, or the Power of Reticence."Schwartz and Estess 211-13.

 

• Powers-Beck, Jeffrey. "'Time to Plant Tears': Elizabeth Bishop's Seminary of Tears."South Atlantic Review 60 (Autumn 1995): 69-87.

 

• Rich, Adrienne. "The Eye of The Outsider: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop."Boston Review 8.2 (1983): 15-17.

 

• Rodman, Seldon. "Carefully Revealed."New York Times Book Review 27 October 1946: 18.

 

• Schwartz, Lloyd and Sybil P. Estess, eds. Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art.Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1983.

 

• Shetley, Vernon. After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America.Durham: Duke UP, 1993.

 

• Smith, W. Jay. "New Books of Poems."Harper's 233 (August 1966): 89-91.

 

• Spires, Elizabeth. "The Art of Poetry XXVII: Elizabeth Bishop."Monteiro 114-32.

 

• Starbuck, George. "'The Work!': A Conversation With Elizabeth Bishop."Monteiro 82-97.

 

• Stevenson, Anne. Elizabeth Bishop.New York: Twayne, 1966.

 

• Strand, Mark. "A Conversation with Norman Klein."Ploughshares 2.3 (1975): 99-101.

 

• ---. "Elizabeth Bishop Introduction."Schwartz and Estess 242-43.

 

• Suárez-Toste, Ernesto. "'Straight from Chirico': Pictorial Surrealism and the Early Elizabeth Bishop."Studies in the Humanities 23.2 (1996): 185-201.

 

• ---. "Une Machine a Coudre Manuelle: Elizabeth Bishop's Everyday Surrealism."Mosaic 33.2 (June 2000): 143-60.

 

• Travisano, Thomas. "Elizabeth Bishop and the Origins of Narrative Postmodernism."Kelly 87-104.

 

• ---. Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development.Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1988.

 

• ---. "The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon."New Literary History 26.4 (1995): 903-930.

 

• ---. "'The Flicker of Impudence': Delicacy and Indelicacy in the Art of Elizabeth Bishop."Lombardi Bishop 111-25.

 

• ---. "Heavenly Dragons: A Newly Discovered Poem by Elizabeth Bishop"Western Humanities Review (Spring 1991): 25-33.

 

• ---. Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Post-modern Aesthetic.Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999.

 

• Upton, Lee. "Through the Lens of Edward Lear: Contesting Sense in Elizabeth Bishop."Studies in the Humanities 19.1 ( June 1992): 69-79.

 

• Vendler, Helen. "Domestication, Domesticity, and the Otherworldly." Part of Nature, Part of Us.Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1980. 97-110.

 

• Walker, Cheryl. "Metaphysical Surrealism in Bishop."Kelly 145-54.

 

• ---. "Reading Elizabeth Bishop as a Religious Poet."Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 37 (November 1998): 165-72.

 

• Weeks, Edward. "The Atlantic Bookshelf."The Atlantic Monthly (August 1946): 148.

 

• Wehr, Wesley. "Elizabeth Bishop: Conversations and Class Notes."Monteiro 38-46.

 

• Wilbur, Richard. "Elizabeth Bishop."Schwartz and Estess 263-66.

 

• Williams, Oscar. "North but South."New Republic 21 October 1946: 525.

 

• World Literature Today. Special Issue "Homage to Elizabeth Bishop, Our 1976 Laureate."Ed. Ivar Ivask. Winter 1977.

 

• Xiaojing, Zhou. "'The Oblique, the Indirect Approach': Elizabeth Bishop's 'Rainy Season: Sub-Tropics.'"Chicago Review 40 (September 22, 1994): 75-93.