Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0113
Shen Mei
George Herbert was a favorite poet of Elizabeth Bishop. This essay examines the relationship of Bishop’s “The Fish” to Herbert’s “The Collar.” Despite their differences in subject, image and diction, the poems’ structural design, rhyme scheme, tonal shifts, and above all, allusions to traditional Christian ideas have similarities that convincingly demonstrate Bishop’s debt to the earlier poet.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0052
Eilish Mulholland
Utilizing food studies theory, this article accordingly uncovers how the deliberate attention afforded the discussion and identification of food within Elizabeth Bishop’s work such as her 1953 short story “Gwendolyn” and her poem “A Miracle for Breakfast” are an attempt to use food as a navigational tool. Concerning questions of gender, sexuality, personal identity and power, these registers of craving, appetite and food-centric imagery reveal a strong relationship between Bishop’s sense of individuality and the social dimensions of food.
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{"title":"Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again","authors":"Angus Cleghorn","doi":"10.5040/9781580813631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781580813631","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198773,"journal":{"name":"Bishop–Lowell Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122976979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0137
Zachary Fine
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0130
J. Ellis
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0001
Toshiaki Komura
Despite the “literary turn” in moral philosophy, which was precipitated by the confluence of post-structural, postmodern currents in literature and a renewed interest in Aristotle’s virtue ethics in philosophy, the field of animal ethics has largely refrained from engaging with literature. Although the oeuvres of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell include numerous poems that feature animals, they remain relatively inconspicuous in animal ethics discourse, in part because their poems have often been assumed to use animals as figurations, rather than being about animals. This article rereads Bishop’s and Lowell’s animal poems through the lens of animal ethics. Through a close analysis of Bishop’s and Lowell’s animal poems ranging from “The Moose” and “The Swan” to “Trouvée” and “Turtle,” this essay examines how Bishop’s and Lowell’s animal poems speak to and about those animals with an awareness of, and deference to, their unknowability.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0070
Amna Umer Cheema
This article expands on Elizabeth Bishop’s affinity with the Cuban poet and critic Severo Sarduy and his neo-baroque reading of the seventeenth-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler’s planetary geometry of the imperfect circle called the ellipse and its linguistic equivalent the ellipsis (Sarduy 293). This essay will elucidate the geometrical decentering of space and the linguistic decentering of meanings as characteristics of ellipse and ellipsis through a discussion of Bishop’s poems, “In the Waiting Room,” “The Bight” and “One Art.” I argue that Bishop’s engagement with ellips(e/is) is a spatial response to the destabilization of modern urban space and the gap between language and signification, akin to T.S. Eliot’s ideas about the gap between thought and feeling in modern sensibility. Through ellips(e/is), Bishop seeks a perspective outside definitive contours and finds beauty in an incomplete and distorted embodiment of an ever-becoming truth.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0121
Lauren Chavez
{"title":"Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life","authors":"Lauren Chavez","doi":"10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":198773,"journal":{"name":"Bishop–Lowell Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133445458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.5325/bishoplowellstud.2.0026
Ben Leubner
This article argues for the importance of the friendship between Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill when it came to each poet’s ongoing professional development, especially during the 1970s, when their friendship was at its height. The article contends that not only was Bishop instrumental in Merrill’s poetic development, as has already been well-established, but that Merrill was equally influential to Bishop in her last decade, a point that has yet to be made. Through a reading of their correspondence across three decades, in addition to readings of several of their travel poems, the article reveals the significant extent to which the two poets took comfort not only in each other, but in each other’s work, as well.
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