Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (Loa #180)

by Elizabeth Bishop

Book Overview

James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's." Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598530178
• ISBN13: 9781598530179
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 975 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.1"