Articles About Elizabeth Bishop

Note: This list is incomplete and only includes articles written about Elizabeth Bishop between 1990 and 2001.

  • Altieri, Charles. "Ann Lauterbach's 'Still' and Why Stevens Still Matters." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 219-33.
  • Ausubel, Jonathan. "Subjected People: Towards a Grammar for the Underclass in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 4:1-2 (1994-1995): 83-97. See a response by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan in the same issue, 172-80.
  • Bailey, Mary Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Bishop: Travel and Connections." Worcester Review 13:1-2 (Fall1992): 79-87.
  • Barry, Sandra. "Shipwrecks of the Soul: Elizabeth Bishop's Reading of Hopkins." Dalhousie Review 5:1 (Spring 1994): 25-50.
  • Bidart, Frank. "Elizabeth Bishop." Threepenny Review 58 (Summer 1994): 6-7. Rpt. in The Pushcart Prize XX, 1996, The Best of Small Presses. Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, 1995. 296-306.
  • Bikerts, Sven. "Elizabeth Bishop's Prose: Atmospheres of Identity." Conjunctions 29 Bi-Annual Volume of New Writing (1997): 252-259.
  • Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. "From Gender to Genre and Back: Elizabeth Bishop and 'The Moose.'" American Literary History 6:2 (Summer 1994): 265-86.
  • Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught. "The Moral of the Story: Naming the Thief of Babylon." Ellipsis 1:2 (1991): 277-286.
  • __________. "Planets on the Table: From Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop to Adrienne Rich and June Jordan." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 255-278.
  • Brogan, Kathleen. "Lyric Voice and Sexual Difference in Elizabeth Bishop." Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture. Ed. Suzanne Jones. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 60-71.
  • Christ, Ronald. "Elizabeth Bishop's Doctor." Letter. The New York Times Book Review, May 8, 1994: 27.
  • Cook, Eleanor. "From Etymology to Paronomasia: Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Others." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 2:1 (1992): 34-51. See responses in Connotations by Anthony Hecht, 2:2 (1992): 201-204; Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, 2:3 (1992): 295-304; Anca Rosu, 2:3 (1992): 305-312; Timothy Bahti, 3:1 (1993): 90-94; John Hollander, 3:1 (1993): 95-98; Eleanor Cook, 3:1 (1993): 99-102.
  • Costello, Bonnie. "Narrative Secrets, Lyric Openings." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 180-200.
  • Curry, Renee. "May Sarton and Elizabeth Bishop: A Revisionist Age." Puckerbrush Review 11:2 (Winter 1993): 51-57. Rpt. in A Celebration for May Sarton: Essays from the National Conference May Sarton at 80, A Celebration of Her Life and Work. Ed. Constance Huntington. Orono: Puckerbrush, 1994. 231-44.
  • Dickie, Margaret. "Elizabeth Bishop: Text and Subtext." South Atlantic Review 59:4 (November 1994): 1-19.
  • ____________. "The Love Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop: Silent and Silenced." Semantics of Silences in Linguistics and Literature. Ed. Gudrun M. Grabher and Ulrike Jessner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1996. 271-289.
  • __________. Introduction. The Wallace Stevens Journal: Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop. Ed. Jaqueline Vaught Brogan. 19:2 (Fall 1995): 107-114.
  • __________. "Race and Class in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry." Yearbook of English Studies 24 (1994): 44-58.
  • __________. "Seeing and Re-Seeing: Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop." American Literature 65:1 (March 1993): 131-146.
  • Doreski, C.K. "Proustian Closure in Wallace Stevens' "The Rock" and Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III." Twentieth Century Literature 44:1 (Spring 1998): 34-52.
  • Erkilla, Betsy. "Elizabeth Bishop, Modernism, and the Left." American Literary History 8:2 (Summer 1996): 284-310.
  • Fast, Robin Riley. "Moore, Bishop, and Oliver: Thinking Back, Re-Seeing the Sea." Twentieth Century Literature 39:3 (Fall 1993): 364-379.
  • Fenton, James. "Las muchas artes de Elizabeth Bishop." Trans. Jordi Doce. Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 574 (April 1998): 73-87. See also "The Many Arts of Elizabeth Bishop." The Strength of Poetry: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 127-44.
  • Ferry, Anne. "The Naming of Crusoe." Eighteenth-Century Life 16:3 (November 1992): 195-207.
  • Fields, Joan L. "Uncertainties and Discoveries: Elizabeth Bishop's Dramatized Personae as Little Girls." Performance for a Lifetime, A Festschrift Honoring Dorothy Harrell Brown: Essays on Women, Religion, and the Renaissance. Ed. Barbara C. Ewell and Mary A. McCay. New Orleans: Loyola UP, 1997. 78-94.
  • Fountain, Gary. "Elizabeth Bishop's Lesbianism." Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures. Ed. Martin Duberman. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
  • Gardner, Thomas. "Bishop and Ashbery: Two Ways Out of Stevens." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 201-218.
  • Gelpi, Albert. "Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 155-165.
  • Gilbert, Roger. "Framing Water: Historical Knowledge in Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich." Twentieth Century Literature 43:2 (Summer 1997): 144-61.
  • Giroux, Robert. "The Making of 'The Moose.'" Princeton University Library Chronicle 55:3 (Spring 1994): 400-410.
  • Goodridge, Celeste. "Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens: Sustaining the Eye/I." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 133-154.
  • Graham, Vicki. "Bishop's 'At the Fishhouses.'" Explicator 53:2 (Winter 1995): 114-117.
  • Gray, Jeffrey. "Bishop's 'Brazil, January 1, 1502.'" Explicator 54:1 (Fall 1995): 36.
  • Hamelman, Steven. "Bishop's 'Crusoe in England.'" Explicator 51:1 (Fall 1992): 50-53.
  • Hammer, Langdon. "Useless Concentration: Life and Work in Elizabeth Bishop's Letters and Poems." American Literary History 9:1 (Spring 1997): 162-80.
  • Heaney, Seamus. "Counting to a Hundred: On Elizabeth Bishop." The Redress of Poetry. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. 164-185.
  • Irimia, Mihaela. "The Art of Losing: W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Bishop." Critical Survey 6:3 (1994): 361-65.
  • Jarraway, David R. "'O Canada!': The Spectral Lesbian Poetics of Elizabeth Bishop." PMLA 113:2 (March 1998): 243-57.
  • Keniston, Ann. "Efforts of Influence: Moore and Bishop." Contemporary Literature 36:2 (Summer 1995): 384-91.
  • Lankford, Ryan. "Bishop's 'Sestina.'" Explicator 52:1 (Fall 1993): 57-59.
  • Lensing, George S. "Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop: The Way a Poet Should See, the Way a Poet Should Think." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 115-132.
  • Logan, William. "The Unbearable Lightness of Elizabeth Bishop." Southwest Review 79:1 (Winter 1994): 120-146.
  • Logenbach, James. "Elizabeth Bishop's Social Conscience." ELH 62:2 (Summer 1995): 467-86.
  • Mann, Charles Edward. "Elizabeth Bishop and Revision: A Spiritual Act." The American Poetry Review 25:2 (March/April 1996) 43-50.
  • Martens, Klaus."The Moose of It: Ein Gedicht von Elizabeth Bishop in seinen angloamerikanischen Traditionen." Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations, Presented to Winfried Herget. Ed. Udo J. Hebel and Karl Ortseifen. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995. 279-94.
  • McCabe, Susan. "Writing Loss." AI 50:1 (Spring 1993): 69-110.
  • McHugh, Heather. "Moving Means, Meaning Moves: Notes on Lyric Destination." Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World. Ed. Gregory Orr and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996. 207-220.
  • Merrin, Jeredith. "Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop." The Columbia History of American Poetry. Ed. Jay Parini and Brett C. Millier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. 343-369.
  • Messenger, Cynthia. "'But How Do You Children Write Chagall?' Ekphrasis and the Brazilian Poetry of P.K. Page and Elizabeth Bishop." Canadian Literature 142/143 (Fall/Winter 1994): 102-117.
  • Millier, Brett C. "The Prodigal: Elizabeth Bishop and Alcohol." Contemporary Literature 39:1 (Spring 1998): 54-76.
  • Mitrano, Mena. "Bishop's 'Pink Dog.'" Explicator 54:1 (Fall 1995): 33-36.
  • New, Elisa. "Awe, Wonder, and Wit: Elizabeth Bishop and the Modernization of Calvinist Mood." The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era. Ed. Aliki Barnstone, Michael Tomasek Manson, and Carol J. Singley. Hanover, N.H.: UP of New England, 1997. 107-124.
  • Ostriker, Alicia. "I Am (Not) This: Erotic Discourse in Bishop, Olds, and Stevens." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 234-254.
  • Page, Barbara. "Elizabeth Bishop and Postmodernism." The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 166-179.
  • Palatella, John. "'That Sense of Constant Re-adjustment:' The Great Depression and the Provisional Politics of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South." Contemporary Literature 34:1 (Spring 1993): 18-43.
  • Paton, Priscilla M. "Landscape and Female Desire: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Closet' Tactics." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 31:3 (Sept. 1998): 133-51.
  • Powers-Beck, Jeffrey. "'Time to Plant Tears:' Elizabeth Bishop's Seminary of Tears." South Atlantic Review 60:4 (November 1995): 69-87.
  • Raab, Josef. "Elizabeth Bishop's Autobiographical Silences." Semantics of Silences in Linguistics and Literature. Ed. Gudrun M. Grabher and Ulrike Jessner. Heidelberg: Universitaetsverlag C., 1996. 291-308.
  • ________. "The Poetics of Life: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop." Poetics in the Poem: Critical essays on American Self-Reflexive Poetry. Ed. Dorothy Z. Baker. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 195-219.
  • Saunders, Judith P. "'Large Bad Picture' and 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:' A Note on Elizabeth Bishop's Modernist Aesthetics." ANQ 8:3 (Summer 1995): 17-22.
  • Siebald, Manfred. "'Questions of Travel': Die Dekonstruktion des touristischen Blicks in der Reiselyrik Elizabeth Bishop." Amerikastudien/American Studies 41:4 (1996): 623-35.
  • Stevenson, Anne. "The Iceberg and the Ship: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop." Michigan Quarterly Review 35:4 (Fall 1996): 704-719.
  • ____________. "The Iceberg and the Ship: On Elizabeth Bishop." Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Poets on Poetry. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998.
  • Suarez-Toste, Ernesto. "'Straight from Chirico': Pictorial Surrealism and Early Elizabeth Bishop." Studies in the Humanities 23:2 (December 1996): 185-201.
  • Summers, Joseph H. "George Herbert and Elizabeth Bishop." George Herbert Journal 18:1-2 (Fall1994-Spring '95): 48-58.
  • Taylor, Eleanor Ross. "Interview with Eleanor Ross Taylor." By Jean Valentine. Southern Review 33:4 (Autumn 1997): 790-814.
  • Travisano, Thomas. "Bishop's Influence on Stevens" The Wallace Stevens Journal 19:2 (Fall 1995): 279-86.
  • ____________. "The Elizabeth Bishop Phenomenon," New Literary History. 26:4 (Fall 1995): 903-30. Rpt. in Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and the Readers. Ed. Margaret Dickie and Thomas Travisano. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 217-244.
  • Upton, Lee. "Through the Lens of Edward Lear: Contesting Sense in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop." Studies in Humanities 19:1 (June 1992): 68-79.
  • Varnes, Kathrine. "Is It a Boy or a Girl Gender as the Ever-Present Authority and Anxiety in Bishop Studies." Connotations : A Journal for Critical Debate 4:3 (1994-95): 313-318. (Response to interchange between Jonathan Ausubel and Jacqueline Vaught Brogan in Connotations 4:1-2 (1994-1995): 83-97 and 172-80.)
  • Wallace, Patricia. "Erasing the Maternal: Rereading Elizabeth Bishop." The Iowa Review 22:2 (Spring 1992): 82-103.
  • Williams, David G. "Elizabeth Bishop and the 'Martian' Poetry of Craig Raine and Christopher Reid." English Studies 78:5 (Sept. 1997): 451-58.
  • _____________. "Responses to Elizabeth Bishop: Anne Stevenson, Eavan Boland, and Jo Shapcott." English 44:180 (1995): 229-245.
  • Wolosky, Shira. "Representing Other Voices: Rhetorical Perspectives in Elizabeth Bishop." Style 29:1 (1995): 1-17.
  • Zhou, Xiaojing. "Bishop's 'Casabianca.'" Explicator 52:2 (Winter 1994): 109-111.
  • ___________. "Bishop's 'Trouvée.'" Explicator 54:2 (Winter 1996); 102.
  • __________. "'My Real Hopes and Ambitions': Re-Reading Elizabeth Bishop's 'In Prison.'" Texas Studies in Literature and Language 39:1 (Spring 1997): 65-79.
  • ___________. "'The Oblique, the Indirect Approach:' Elizabeth Bishop's 'Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics.'" Chicago Review 40:4 (1994): 75-92.
  • Zimmerman, Lee. "Against Vanishing: Winicott and the Modern Poetry of Nothing." American Image 54:1 (Spring 1997): 81-102.