... important work during the last three years which I take no note of here. i Elizabeth Bishop What Thomas Travisano identified some years ago as ‘‘the Elizabeth Bishop phenomenon’’ shows no sign of wearing itself out. The sheer volume of scholarship devoted to her over the last three years far...

... might then give more balanced coverage to a relentlessly expanding period that now spans seven decades and will soon add an eighth. Wherever this chapter might end, it always begins with Elizabeth Bishop, and this year it took me awhile to get beyond her. I highlight a landmark edition of her...

...Jeffrey Westover Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Poetry: to the s Je rey Westover Continued critical interest in Mina Loy is re ected in two recent books covered here, while research on Elizabeth Bishop has resulted in a new biography and a volume addressing archival material...

...Frank J. Kearful © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 17  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank J. Kearful This is a good year for Elizabeth Bishop, as have been all the ten years that I have written this annual chapter. What Thomas Travisano referred to in 1994...

... in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop (New England) is broader in scope, working as much as an appreciation as an analysis of these artists. Chapter 2, ‘‘Rustic Sophistication: Lionizing Winslow Ho- mer, Defending Robert Frost insightfully addresses the problems of canon...

.... It is for such reasons that I only sometimes yearn for a moratorium. I might not even take one. American Literary Scholarship (2005) doi 10.1215/00659142-2006-011 © 2007 by Duke University Press 400 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present i  Elizabeth Bishop Cheryl Walker’s God...

... are speculations on how poetic histories might be written di√erently, less monolithically, more flexibly, and with greater at- tention to the fact that the problem with any category, as Elizabeth Bishop once commented wryly, is that ‘‘none of the books ever gets it right While the borders of late...

... Robert Lowell” in a special number of Salmagundi. Before writing next year’s chapter I shall be penning a few villanelles, sestinas, and pantoums. i  Elizabeth Bishop From instability to indeterminacy is but a short leap for critics who write of Bishop’s trope of instability, whose...

...” in it. As long as I too can get by without the r-word, I will happily go on writing this chapter, gritting my teeth periodically. And learning something new, even at my age. i  Elizabeth Bishop Who would not be grateful for the publication of an edition of “uncol- lected” poems by Elizabeth Bishop...

... American Literary Scholarship (2009) doi 10.1215/00659142-1164675 © 2011 by Duke University Press 396 Poetry: Since the 1940s Light focuses on eight 20th-century poets, including midcentury poets Isabella Gardner, Elizabeth Bishop, and Jeanne Garrigue. Jane Hedley’s...

...-British poet, which perhaps is not American Literary Scholarship (2010) doi 10.1215/00659142-1501254 © 2012 by Duke University Press 400 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present altogether the same as a British American poet. Why not call Elizabeth Bishop a Canadian American...

... knowledge of their own past. Celena Kusch s Antifascist, Anti-imperialist, Anti-war: The Political Alter-Egos of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore in 1930s Britain ( pp. 273 94) argues that in their contributions to Life and Letters Today during the 1930s Moore and Bishop conduct a significant...

... at first drew on the arts and crafts movement to champion the plight of the poor. Later, he allied himself with the possibilities of the future, as embodied in skyscrapers, in order to promote the welfare of industrial workers. ii  Elizabeth Bishop In “Poetry: Directions for Thought” P&L( 37...

... in a newly published edition of her 1928 book of essays Contemporaries and Snobs; impersonality is a key term in a book by Christina Walter (addressed in the sections on H.D. and Mina Loy); and the concept is compared to Elizabeth Bishop’s poetic reticence at several points in The Cambridge Companion...

... compares how three British Romantic poets and three 20th-century American poets— Frank O’Hara, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Bishop—“professed” sin- cerity. Rosenbaum rejects any inherent opposition between sincerity and theatricality, or between lyric and commercial culture, and probes...

... Poetry (Bloomsbury), a collection of essays featuring chapters on E. E. Cummings, Lorine Niedecker, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop, among others. The theories fall into three main categories: the superiority theory, the incon- gruity theory, and Freudian. Trousdale further observes that Sigmund...

... are followed by essays on neglected and better-known poets exceptionally fine pieces on Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, W. S. Merwin, and James Merrill among them. Some essays are revised and retitled from the contexts in which they first appeared, primarily the New Yorker and the New Republic. Also of note...

... well-turned essays by David Wyatt on Elizabeth Bishop, Helen Vendler on A. R. Ammons, and Willard Spiegelman on John Updike’s deathbed poetry. Given the whirligig of time and the changing of the avant-garde, it should not come as much of a surprise that the poets who enjoyed their time...

... Moore, Elizabeth Bishop The most important development in Moore studies this year is the appearance of a truly impressive example of informed and thorough 368 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s scholarship, Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907–1924...

..., and Niedecker’s New Goose reflects a similar WPA ethos, though Niedecker’s aesthetics are quite different. The same may be said of Robert Frost’s “Paul’s Wife,” a wonderfully individuated treatment of the Paul Bunyan story. iii  Elizabeth Bishop Frances Leviston’s “Mothers and Marimbas in ‘The Bight...