|
|
Article: Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender.
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Old City Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
ELIZABETH BISHOP IS now recognized as one of the major American poets of this century, and the publication of this first selection of her letters will remain a lasting gift to literature. It will also accelerate a change, which has been building for some time, in the way Bishop is read. During her lifetime, Bishop was seen as a writer of marginalia, as an acolyte of Marianne Moore's school of meticulous observation of the strangeness of things, as a painter of delicate watercolors ("The Map") and what Oscar Williams called "charming little stained-glass bits." Bishop's modesty, reticence and New England or Nova Scotian rectitude were advertised as models of a presumably ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Bishops boycott Episcopal event over moral issues.(NATION)
The Washington Times;
September 28, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... 21 letter, Bishop Francis Gray joined several other bishops in skipping the ... Virginia's three bishops to openly oppose the election of Bishop Robinson last ... to Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan. "Six diocesan [bishops] either refused ...
|
|