Bibliography

Works by Elizabeth Bishop

NOTE: The definitive bibliography of Bishop's works is: Candace W. MacMahon. Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography 1927-1979. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. Largely completed before her death, it was checked by Bishop herself. It should be consulted for information about the publication history of individual poems, books and other works related to her career.

Books by Elizabeth Bishop

  • The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968.
  • Brazil. With the editors of Life. NY: Time Incorporated, 1962. In the Life World Library Series.
  • The Collected Prose. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1984.
  • The Complete Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969.
  • The Complete Poems. London: Chatto and Windus, 1970.
  • The Complete Poems, 1927-1979. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1983.
  • The Complete Poems, 1927-1979. London: Chatto and Windus, 1983.
  • Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop. Literary Conversations Series. George Monteiro, ed. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1996. Collects all known interviews with Bishop, including translations from Brazilian sources.
  • Exchanging Hats: Paintings. William Benton, ed. (With an Introduction.) New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.
  • Geography III. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976.
  • Geography III. London: Chatto and Windus, 1977.
  • North and South. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
  • Elizabeth Bishop: One Art. Letters selected and edited by Robert Giroux. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.
  • Poem. NY: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1973.
  • Poems. NY: Speculum Musicae, 1976. Six poems set to music by Elliot Carter.
  • Poems. London: Chatto and Windus, 1956.
  • Poems: North & South--A Cold Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955.
  • Questions of Travel. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1965.
  • Selected Poems. London: Chatto and Windus, 1967.

Translations by Elizabeth Bishop

  • The Diary of "Helena Morley", by Alice Brant. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1957.
  • The Diary of "Helena Morley", by Alice Brant. London: Victor Gollancz, 1958.
  • The Diary of "Helena Morley", by Alice Brant. NY: Ecco Press, 1977.
  • "Three Stories by Clarice Lispector." Kenyon Review 26 (Summer 1964): 500-511. (Note: For a listing of individual poems translated by Bishop, consult MacMahon, Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography 1927-1979.)

Anthology

  • An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry. Elizabeth Bishop and Emanuel Brasil, eds. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972.

Other Separate Publications

  • Note: See Candace W. MacMahon. Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography 1927-1979 for other listings.
  • "A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute." Harvard Advocate: W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, 108 (1974): 47-48.
  • "Chimney Sweepers." Vassar Review 19 (Spring 1933): 8-10, 36.
  • "Dimensions for a Novel." Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies 8 (May 1934): 95-103.
  • "Flannery O'Connor, 1925-1964." New York Review of Books (8 October 1964): 21.
  • "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Timing in His Poetry." Vassar Review 23 (February 1934): 5-7.
  • "An Inadequate Tribute." Randall Jarrell: 1914-1965. Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren, eds. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1967. 20.
  • "It All Depends." Mid-Century American Poets. John Ciardi, ed. NY: Twayne, 1950. 267.
  • "'I Was But Just Awake.'" Poetry 93 (October 1958): 50-54. Review of Walter de la Mare, Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages.
  • "Laureate's Words of Acceptance." World Literature Today 51.1 (Winter 1977): 12.
  • Letter. Little Magazine 5 (Fall/Winter 1971): 79.
  • Letter. New Republic 146.18 (30 April 1962): 22.
  • "On the Railroad Named Delight." New York Times Magazine 7 March 1965: 30-31,84-86.
  • Review of XIAPE: 71 Poems, by e. e. cummings. United States Quarterly Book Review 6 (June 1950): 160-61.
  • "A Sentimental Tribute." Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin (Spring 1962): 3. Review of The Marianne Moore Reader.
  • "Time's Andromedas." Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies (1933): 102-103.
  • "Unseemly Deductions." New Republic 127.7 (18 August 1950): 20.
  • "What the Young Man Said to the Psalmist." Poetry (January 1952): 213.

Bishop Phonorecordings

  • NOTE: The following list is from Candace W. MacMahon Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography 1927-1979, Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1980, p. 167.
  • Harvard: Lamont Library (Poetry Room). Selections from Her Poetry Read by the Author. Not copyrighted. 78 RPM. December 17, 1947. Contains "Songs for a Colored Singer," "Late Air," "The Fish," and "The Imaginary Iceberg."
  • Library of Congress. Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. P-8 (P-38). Contains "Faustina, or Rock Roses," "Jeronimo's House," and "At the Fishhouses."
  • Pleasure Dome: An Audible Anthology of Modern Poetry Read by Its Creators and Edited by Lloyd Frankenberg. Columbia Records (ML-4259)), New York, 1949. Contains "Anaphora," "Late Air," and "The Fish." Released December 5, 1949. Often reissued from new matrixes; the earliest pressing has a dark blue label lettered in metallic yellowish white.
  • [Spoken Arts] Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets Reading Their Poems. Spoken Arts SA 1049, vol. X.; Contains "The Imaginary Iceberg," "The Fish," "Varick Street," and "Visits to St. Elizabeths." This recording was made in October 1968, in San Francisco.
  • Voices and Visions: Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)." Mystic Fire Audio. New York Center for Visual History, 1996.

Translations of Elizabeth Bishop

  • Elizabeth Bishop. (Stories from the collected prose translated into French.) Stories translated from English by Bernard Hoepffner. Circé, 1992.
  • Elizabeth Bishop: Poemas. (Poems translated into Portuguese.) Translated and Introduced by Horácio Costa. São Paulo, Brasil: Editora Schwarcz, 1990.
  • Elizabeth Bishop: Poemas do Brasil. (Poems translated into Portuguese.) Selected, introduced and translated by Paulo Heriques Britto. São Paulo, Brasil: Editora Schwarcz, 1999.

Works about Elizabeth Bishop

Bibliographies About Elizabeth Bishop

  • Barry, Sandra. Elizabeth Bishop: An Archival Guide to Her Life in Nova Scotia. Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, Limited, 1996.
  • Baughman, Ronald, ed. "Contemporary American Poets." Contemporary Authors Bibliography Series (1986): 35-69.
  • MacMahon, Candace W. Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography 1927-1979. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980.
  • Wyllie, Diana E. Elizabeth Bishop and Howard Nemerov: A Reference Guide. Boston: Hall, 1983.

Biographies About Elizabeth Bishop

  • Fountain, Gary and Peter Brazeau. Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography. Amherst: University Press of Massachusetts, 1994.
  • Millier, Brett Candlish. Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • Oliveira, Carmen L. Flores raras e banalissimas: a historia de Lota de Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1995.

Books About Elizabeth Bishop

  • Barry, Sandra. Elizabeth Bishop: An Archival Guide to Her Life in Nova Scotia. Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, Limited, 1996.
  • Bloom, Harold, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985.
  • Colwell, Anne. Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, July 1997.
  • Costello, Bonnie. Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
  • Diehl, Joanne Feit. Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Doreski, Carole. Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Fountain, Gary and Peter Brazeau. Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography. Amherst: University Press of Massachusetts, 1994.
  • Goldensohn, Lorrie. Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
  • Harrison, Victoria. Elizabeth BishopÕs Poetics of Intimacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • Lombardi, Marilyn May. The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995.
  • ________ ed. Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
  • McCabe, Susan. Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
  • Menides, Laura Jehn and Angela G. Dorenkamp, eds. ÒIn Worcester,MassachusettsÓ: Essays On Elizabeth Bishop From The 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference At WPI. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
  • Merrin, Jeredith. An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990
  • Millier, Brett Candlish. Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
  • Oliveira, Carmen L. Flores raras e banalissimas: a historia de Lota de Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1995.
  • Parker, Robert Dale. The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
  • Roman, Camille. Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  • Schwartz, Lloyd, and Sybil P. Estess, eds. Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983.
  • Shigley, Sally Bishop. Dazzling Dialectics: Elizabeth Bishop's Resonating Feminine Reality. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.
  • Stevenson, Anne. Elizabeth Bishop. New York: Twayne, 1966.
  • _____________. Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop. London: Bellew, 1998.
  • Travisano, Thomas. Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1988.
  • Zhou, Xiaojing. Elizabeth Bishop: Rebel In Shades and Shadows. New York: Peter Lang New York, 1999.

Books Partially About Elizabeth Bishop

  • Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Cook, Eleanor. Against Coercion: Games Poets Play. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998. ("Schemes Against Coercion: Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Bishop, and Others," 25-43; "Fables of War in Elizabeth Bishop," 44-60; "The Poetics of Modern Punning: Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Others," 172-86; "Ghost Rhymes and How They Work," 223-34)
  • Dickie, Margaret. Stein, Bishop & Rich: Lyrics of Love, War & Place. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
  • Diehl, Joanne Feit. Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  • Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline. The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H.D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Glück. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992.
  • Erkkila, Betsy, "Differences That Kill: Eizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore," The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History and Discord. New York: Oxford, 1992, pp. 99-151.
  • Frankenberg, Lloyd. Pleasure Dome: On Reading Modern Poetry. New York: Gordian Press, 1968.
  • Kalstone, David. Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • _______. Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1989.
  • Keller, Lynn. Re-Making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Kelly, Lionel, Ed. Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. Netherlands: Rodopi Amsterdam, 2000.
  • Laskin, David. A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
  • Lurie, Susan. Unsettled Subjects: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique. Durham: Duke UP, 1997. ("'Caught in a Skein of Voices': Feminism and Colonialism in Elizabeth Bishop," 119-54)
  • McCorkle, James. The Still Performance: Writing, Self, and Interconnection in Five Postmodern American Poets. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.
  • Malkoff, Karl. CrowellÕs Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry. New York: Crowell, 1973.
  • Merrin, Jeredith. An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rugers University Press, 1990.
  • Mills, Ralph J., Jr. Contemporary American Poetry. New York: Random House, 1965.
  • Morris, Timothy. Becoming Canonical in American Poetry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
  • Rotella, Guy. Reading and Writing Nature: The Poetry of Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
  • Schweik, Susan. A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
  • Shetley, Vernon. After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
  • Stepanchev, Stephen. American Poetry Since 1945. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
  • Travisano, Thomas. Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
  • Unterecker, John E. American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement I, part I, ed. Leonard Ungar. New York: Charles ScribnerÕs Sons, 1979.

Journals Wholly or Partially Dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop

  • "Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)." The Worchester Review 18:1&2 (1997).
  • "Elizabeth Bishop Lives." Harvard Review 16 (Spring 1999): 1-84.
  • "Special Issue: Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop." Wallace Stevens Journal. 19.2 (Fall 1995).
  • "A Special Feature On Elizabeth Bishop." The Gettysburg Review 5:1 (Winter 1992): 11-72.
  • Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 2:1 (1992): 34-51, 90-102, 295-312.
  • War Literature and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 2:1 (Spring/Summer 1999): 1-42, 93-148.

Interviews with Elizabeth Bishop

  • Monteiro, George, ed. Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop. Literary Conversations Series. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1996. Collects all known interviews with Bishop, including translations from Brazilian sources.