Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Post, Jonathan F S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198851413 ISBN 13: 9780198851417

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2022

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Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the 90 or so published poems that are at the core of her remarkable canon of verse. Drawing on biographical and critical material, Jonathan Post also makes frequent use of Bishop's letters and commentary by fellow poets, including Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, and James Merrill to illuminate her writing and contemporary literary landscape.

Throughout, Post places Bishop's lyric poetry within the context of her life and aesthetic values, showing how these shaped her work. The book covers a wide range of core themes present in her poetry, including her powerful use of description, the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss, as well as looking at Bishop's interest in the visual arts.
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Jonathan F. S. Post is Distinguished Research Professor of English, UCLA, former Chair of the Department and Dean of Humanities, and the author of numerous studies of poetry in the Early Modern and Modern periods of literature. Post is the author of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry (2013); A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht (2018); and Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction (2017).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198851413
• ISBN 13: 9780198851417
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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