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Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop (Paperback, New edition)
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Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop (Paperback, New edition)
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Discovery Miles 4 210
You Save R30 (7%)
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Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential
American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in
1998, "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" is a highly illuminating
reader's guide written by another leading poet, which makes full
use of the letters Elizabeth Bishop wrote to Anne Stevenson from
Brazil in the 1960s. Anne Stevenson is a major American and British
poet who has published many books of poetry, including her "Poems
1955-2005" in 2005. Her other books include "Bitter Fame: A Life of
Sylvia Plath" (1989), the first critical study of "Elizabeth
Bishop" (1966), and a book of essays, "Between the Iceberg and the
Ship" (1998). Each of her five chapters looks at a different aspect
of Bishop's art. "In the Waiting Room" links her life-long search
for self-placement to her unsettled childhood. "Time's Andromeda"
shows how a youthful fascination with 17th-century baroque art
ripened, in the 1930s, into a unique brand of metaphysical
surrealism. "Living with the Animals" considers ways in which
Bishop, like Walt Whitman, deserted the literary mode of the fable
to give autonomy and authority to natural creatures. Two final
chapters focus on the poet's Darwinian acceptance of evolutionary
change and her steady look at the 'geographical mirror' that in her
later work replaced the figure of the looking-glass as an emblem of
imagination. "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" represents a view of
her work Bishop herself would have recognised and approved. A
chronology and a set of maps serve as practical guides to the
poet's life and travels.
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