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Article: God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry.(Book review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- June 22, 2008
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God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry. By Cheryl Walker. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN 1-4039-6631-1. Pp. xi + 157. $49.95.
Cheryl Walker's God and Elizabeth Bishop provides us with new insights into the personality of the poet, as well as new ways to read her verse. Walker, Richard Armour Professor of Modern Languages at Scripps College, has been enthusiastically praised by Bishop scholars Camille Roman and Thomas Travisano for her "Mediations on Religion and Poetry," which focus on an American poet who was often critical of Christians as "dogmatic, judgmental, and condescending" (3). The author agues convincingly that Bishop ...