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Article: `In Worcester, Massachusetts': Essays on Elizabeth Bishop. From the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference at WPI.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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`In Worcester, Massachusetts': Essays on Elizabeth Bishop. From the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference at WPI. Ed. by Laura Jehn Menides and Angela G. Dorenkamp. (WPI Studies, 18) New York, Bern, and Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 1999. xi + 361 pp. 22 [pounds sterling]; $35.95.
This collection of thirty-seven short papers from the conference at Elizabeth Bishop's birthplace addresses a variety of issues current in Bishop studies, including her connection to Worcester and the other places of her troubled early years which generated her anxiety-ridden re-imaginings of childhood, and her lifelong search for somewhere to call home. Thomas Travisano, in `Elizabeth Bishop and the ...