On Elizabeth Bishop

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"In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers i…

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Title Statements

Full title :On Elizabeth Bishop / Colm Tóibín.

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"In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tóibín"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, New Jersey
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:210 pages ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780691154114, 0691154112
oclc:ocn894625324
LC Classification:PS3503.I785
Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Subjects

Biographies Bishop, Elizabeth Criticism, interpretation, etc Femmes et littérature -- Histoire -- 20… History United States Women and literature Women and literature -- History -- 20th…