The Collected Prose (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bishop
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Essays, memoir, and short stories
- Genres: Memoir, Travel writing, Fable, Short fiction, Essays
- Subjects: Children, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Art or artists, Villages, Poetry or poets, Brothers and sisters, Mental illness, Brazil or Brazilians, Death or dying, Cuba or Cubans, Loneliness, Nostalgia
Form and Content
The Collected Prose, by Elizabeth Bishop, is a varied compilation of memoirs, travel writing, short stories, and artistic fables that spans the career of one of America’s greatest poets and (although Bishop herself abjured the title) women writers. These pieces not only provide biographical and aesthetic compasses for many of the poems but also treat Bishop’s major themes, especially the writer’s fascination with travel and her struggles with the comforts and terrors of domesticity.
The seventeen prose pieces in this volume represent only...
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