BIBLIOGRAPHY

MacMahon, Candace W. Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980, 227 p.

Extensive bibliography of works by and about Bishop; also includes illustrations and excerpts of letters from Bishop to her publishers.

CRITICISM

Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Elizabeth Bishop. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985, 202 p.

Collection of essays on Bishop's poetry.

Erkkila, Betsy. “Elizabeth Bishop, Modernism, and the Left.” American Literary History 8, no. 2 (summer 1996): 284-310.

Discusses the political implications of Bishop's poetry.

Gordon, Jan B., “Days and Distances: The Cartographic Imagination of Elizabeth Bishop.” Salmagundi, no. 22-23 (spring-summer 1973): 294-305.

Examines Bishop's fascination with geographical extremities as it appears in her poetry.

Harrison, Victoria. “The Dailiness of Her Center: Elizabeth Bishop's Late Poetry.” Twentieth Century Literature 37, no. 3 (fall 1991): 253-72.

Explores Bishop's notion of cultural centrality.

Kalstone, David. Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell. Edited by Robert Hemenway. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1989, 299 p.

In an examination of Bishop's poetic development, Kalstone explore Bishop's friendships with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell.

Monteiro, George. “Another Art: Elizabeth Bishop's New Brazil Poem.” Journal of Modern Literature 18, no. 4 (fall 1993): 461-63.

Examines a previously unpublished poem about Brazil by Bishop.

Parker, Robert Dale. The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988, 169 p.

States that Bishop's poetry is “full of confusion and wonder about things she can never make quiet or clear—about sexuality, politics, the burdens of imagination, the fate of the self.”

Pinsky, Robert. “The Idiom of a Self; Elizabeth Bishop and Wordsworth.” American Poetry Review 9, no. 1 (January-February 1980): 6-8.

Examines the similarities of Bishop's search for self in her poetry to that of William Wordsworth.

Stevenson, Anne. “The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop: Precision and Resonance.” Shenandoah 17, no. 2 (winter 1966): 45-54.

Discusses Imagistic facets of Bishop's poetry.

———. “Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and the Romantic Iconography of the Mind.” Poetry Review 79, no. 2 (summer 1989): 10-14.

Examines autobiographical aspects of Bishop's and Plath's poetry and the writers' different responses to their respective crises.

Additional coverage of Bishop's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 1; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1968-1988; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8R, 89-92; Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, Vol. 2; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 26, 61, 108; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 4, 9, 13, 15, 32; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 5, 169; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; Discovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, and Poets; Discovering Authors 3.0; Gay & Lesbian Literature, Ed. 2; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Modern American Women Writers; Poetry Criticism, Vols. 3, 34; Poetry for Students, Vols. 6, 12; Poets: American and British; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Something About the Author, Vol. 24; and World Poets.