ELIZABETH BISHOP VSI: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Jonathan F. S. Post

ISBN 10: 0198851413 / ISBN 13: 9780198851417

Published by Oxford University Press OUP, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ELIZABETH BISHOP VSI: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press OUP
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198851413
• ISBN 13: 9780198851417
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and draws out key themes of the environment, balance, and ideas of love and loss.

About the Author

Jonathan F. S. Post, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of English, UCLA

bJonathan F. S. Post/b is Distinguished Research Professor of English, UCLA, former Chair of the Department and Dean of Humanities, and the author of numerous studies of poetry in the Early Modern and Modern periods of literature. Post is the author of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry (2013); A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht (2018); and Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction (2017).