In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences–the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across…

This book approaches, for the first time, Elizabeth Bishop’s work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole.

Elizabeth Bishop was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, winner of the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1956 and the author of numerous poetry collections. This…

Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling ‘what really happened’. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century’s finest and most beloved American poets has…

By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and postmodern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Elizabeth Bishop’s career, dividing…

This boxed set of works by one of America’s greatest poets contains two volumes: Poems, edited by Saskia Hamilton; and Prose, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and Bishop scholar Lloyd…

These essays on Pulitzer Prize winner, Elizabeth Bishop, argue that her sense of difference as an orphan, a woman artist and a lesbian, play a significant role in the questioning…

A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop’s The Fish, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…