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A biographical/critical study of three mid-century American poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and Marianne Moore. It describes their mutual influence, evokes their world and evaluates their work, with an emphasis on its biographical underpinnings.
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When Elizabeth Bishop, a senior at Vassar in 1934, met Marianne Moore, she clutched the older poet's "very generous and protective apron." Moore's serene ability to enter into the life of things sharpened Bishop's own observational powers. In their friendship, Bishop played the role of wayward niece to Moore's posture as wise, eccentric aunt, in a dynamic of support and disobedience that lasted until Moore's death in 1947. In that year, Bishop met Robert Lowell, embarking on a complex, sustaining friendship that began as a flirtation and survived her alcoholism and 15-year stay in Brazil and his mental breakdowns. Although an abyss might seem to separate Bishop's open-air naturalism from Lowell's narrative lyrics laden with myth and history, Kalstone (who died after completing the draft of this sensitive study) demonstrates how the two established poets opened each other to new modes of expression.
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This presentation of Kalstone's posthumous study of Bishop is an admirable work of editorial care and a testimony to Kalstone's stature as literary critic and historian. Kalstone here develops the initial insights he offered on Bishop in Five Temperaments (1977) and, keenly sensitive to the subtleties of her imagery, demonstrates the degree to which her poetry is deeply and dramatically autobiographical. He explores in detail her personal and aesthetic relationships to Moore and Lowell, and in so doing offers the most lucid and sympathetic readings of Bishop's verse that we yet possess. Further, in his discussion of her growth as an important poet, he illuminates an aspect of the history of American letters from 1945 to the late 1970s that has been neglected for noisier and more gaudy scenes and themes. Highly recommended.
- Earl Rovit, City Coll., CUNY
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0701209011
- ISBN 13 9780701209018
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Hardcover/ No jacket / Elizabeth bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell / Edited by Robert Hemenway / Afterword by James Merrill. Seller Inventory # 65834
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Browning on margins throughout a tight clean text block. A study of Elizabeth Bishop's friendships with poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell from Bishop's first years as a struggling poet out of Vassar until her death. Kalstone, literary historian, poet and friend of Elizabeth Bishop, describes and examines correspondence and impact on Bishop's poetic development. Kalstone died before the manuscript was completed, and his work was completed by Robert Hemenway and James Merrill, Bishop's literary executor. Appendix includes first publication of "The Cock;" source notes; index. xiv, 299 pp. xiv, 299 pp. Seller Inventory # 3265
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Printing of the First British Edition housed in an equally impressive dust-jacket; Becoming a Poet is a book of essays by David Kalstone. The essays are written by Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, and Robert Lowell. The book is about how these three poets became what they are today.; 8vo; 299 pages. Seller Inventory # 59470
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