North and South (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bishop
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, World War II, Poetry or poets, Paris, Birds, Monsters, Cities or towns, Fishes
Critical Evaluation:
North and South, Elizabeth Bishop’s first book of poems, is full of waking up and the sea. There are poems set in Paris, others in rural Florida. Some characters are human, some animals, still others are surreal. Poems like “The Man-Moth,” “Roosters,” and “The Fish” stand powerfully on their own, displaying the mastery that elevated Bishop to the status of a major American poet of the twentieth century. North and South as a whole expresses the young Bishop’s effort to attune her craft to the world she was encountering.
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