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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American Poet This page, from Bishop's alma mater, Vassar College, provides a brief biography, a bibliography, selected papers from the Bishop Symposium at Vassar College, and calls for papers. The site also promises to have more material in the future, though it was last updated in October 1997. | |
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Elizabeth Bishop: Poetry, Media, and Composition Here is a site from the University of Texas, posted by Daniel Anderson, and containing some poems. The site seems to be under construction. "Filling Station," "The Bight," "Five Flights Up," and "Lullaby For The Cat" are all found here. There is also an enterprising but overstated essay on Bishop's use of the diphthong for mimetic effects in "Filling Station," wherein the essayist suggests the poem sounds like oil. | |
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The Armadillo
Hear the author read her poem out loud. | |
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The Atlantic Monthly: "The Unfrocked Governess" Here is a poem of remembrance that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1994, written for Bishop by poet Peter Davison, who is also Poetry Editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Also on this page, one can hear the author recite his poem in RealAudio. | |
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"Sestina" Here is a rare thing indeed: a well-done sestina. It is made rarer by Bishop's use of a four-beat accentual line. This poem was originally printed in Bishop's collection Questions of Travel. | |
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"Chemin de Fer" Here is an early poem by Bishop, from North & South. | |
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The Elizabeth Bishop Papers From Vassar's Elizabeth Bishop Papers, here is a fairly long biographical entry, at the end of which is a list of artifacts in the possession of Vassar's library. | |
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"Large Bad Picture" From a Polish poetry site, here is another poem from North & South, reproduced, side-by-side, in English and Polish translations. | |
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"Elizabeth Bishop as Delicate Ethnographer" Anne Shifrer, a student at Utah State University, has posted this thoughtful personal essay that examines what she calls Bishop's "ethnographic impulse to examine objects as repositories of hidden lives and cultural meanings." | |
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Chapel Hill: Elizabeth Bishop Pages Here are three pages containing a note about Bishop's accomplishment, a biographical entry, a photograph, and the poem "The Shampoo." | |
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"Manners" Here, again from a literary site in Poland, is a side-by-side translation of the poem "Manners," into Polish. | |
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The Academy of American Poets The AAP has posted this site on Bishop, which includes a biographical entry, a selected bibliography and the texts of several poems. "The Armadillo" is also found here as a RealAudio file. | |
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