"As the first book-length collection to focus on Elizabeth Bishop, this book has become an essential resource on this poet--now recognized as one of America's greatest artists--whose poetry, as Harold Bloom says in his foreword, stands "at the edge where what is most worth saying is all but impossible to say." The volume includes major essays by David Kalstone, Helen Vendler, and Robert Pinsky, among others; a chronology of short articles and reviews, poems, memoirs, and memorials, many by major poets (among them Bishop's three most notable supporters--Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, and Randall Jarrell); and an illuminating selection of work by Bishop herself, some of which is unavailable anywhere else." -- Publisher's description.
Thus, the first stanza insists on the complete absence of any outside assistance or direction for the spider's labors. The second stanza speaks to the nature of what is being created. Is the spider sewing a “Ruff,” a collar of ...
Barre Publishers , 1967 ) give good background for Cummings in the 1920s , as also does William Wasserstrom , The Years of The Dial ( Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 1963 ) . J.P. Hallais ' unpublished master's thesis “ Facts and ...
The Letters of William Carlos Williams & Charles Tomlinson
Then she abruptly concludes : I'm glad I don't believe it For it w'd stop my breathAnd I'd like to look a little more At such a curious Earth ! I'm glad they did believe it Whom I have never found Since the mightly Autumn afternoon I ...
James Whitcomb Riley: An Essay
A young poet recalls his personal encounters with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas and speaks of their private and literary concerns, especially in their later years.
A collection of inspirational poems explores the mystery of evil, the meaning of history, our own mysterious quests, the human search for transformative joy, and the quest to find the epiphanies in the ordinary, inviting readers to step ...
In an attempt to explore the relation of Sylvia Plath's personality and poetry, the author reminisces about their friendship.
Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets
As David Herbert Donald reminds us, "winning over an influential base of southern supporters was important to Johnson because he wanted to create a national centrist coalition of moderates who agreed with his desire for a quick ...