Elizabeth Bishop (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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In addition to her poetry, Elizabeth Bishop wrote short stories and other prose pieces. She is also known for her translations of Portuguese and Latin American writers. The Collected Prose, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux, was published in 1984. It includes “In the Village,” an autobiographical revelation of Bishop’s youthful vision of, and later adult perspective on, her mother’s brief return home from a mental hospital. Like her poetry, Bishop’s prose is marked by precise observation and a somewhat withdrawn narrator, although the...
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