Anne Stevenson

Standard Name: Stevenson, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Katharine Stevenson
AS is an important contemporary poet, an heir to both the US and the British traditions. She experimented with drama and fiction early in her career. She writes fine criticism, and has edited the poems of others.

Connections

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Textual Production Frances Bellerby
Both FB 's Selected Poems (edited by Anne Stevenson ) and her Selected Stories (edited by Jeremy Hooker ) were published by Enitharmon Press in 1986.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Author summary Elizabeth Bishop
EB , a leading US poet of the later twentieth century, published six volumes of poetry during her lifetime, of which several collect writing already published. Her prose included translations, essays, a travel book, and...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Bishop
In 1963 EB began a new friendship with the American-British poet Anne Stevenson . Stevenson wrote to Bishop, having undertaken to produce a monograph on her for the Twayne series, and a rich epistolary relationship developed.
Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 175-00.
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Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
This book's title has been called the first of many to reflect EB 's concern with places. Place, however, is not described but interrogated, in abstract and self-enquiring poems, like Paris, 7 a.m. This...
Textual Features Elizabeth Bishop
Anne Stevenson argues that this book marked a shift away from conceits towards personal reminiscence.
Stevenson, Anne. “The Geographical Mirror”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 31-41.
31-2
In fact, however, some poems in EB 's previous collection were suffused with the familiarity of remembered things. In...
Literary responses Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath , who began with negative comments about EB , later developed admiration for her fine originality, always surprising, never rigid, flowing, juicier than Marianne Moore who is her godmother.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 42-62.
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Fleur Adcock notes...
Literary responses Elizabeth Bishop
The strength of EB 's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion , Seamus Heaney , James Fenton , and Eavan Boland , and during the 1990s...
Reception Eavan Boland
This article provoked a literary row. Anne Stevenson wrote a rejoinder to it in PN Review number 88, where she voiced admiring respect for EB 's poems, but took issue with with what she read...
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Byron
Michael Farley , editor of Taxus Press , left his wife, poet Anne Stevenson , and came to Leicester, where he lived with CB for three years.
Byron, Catherine. Emails about Catherine Byron to Jane Haslett.
Reception Gillian Clarke
Reviewers of this book included Anne Stevenson . Letting in the Rumour, which followed in 1989, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was reviewed by Sheenagh Pugh .
Elfyn, Menna, editor. Trying The Line. Gomer.
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Gillian Clarke. http://gillianclarke.co.uk/home.htm.
Literary responses Gillian Clarke
GC is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been awarded an honorary MA from the University of Wales . She was made an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth , Cardiff and Swansea College
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Dickinson
Among our contemporary poets, Adrienne Rich has offered this reading of ED 's life and works: Emily Dickinson—viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as partially cracked, by the twentieth century as fey or...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Dickinson
Because of the extent to which ED 's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ketaki Kushari Dyson
The essays in this volume date from 1977-1985 and cover a wide range of topics, including an autobiographical essay on Dyson's path to becoming a poet, an essay on Jesus , and a critical look...

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Texts

Stevenson, Anne. Astonishment. Bloodaxe , 2012.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame. Viking, 1989.
Stevenson, Anne. Black Grate Poems. Inky Parrot Press, 1985.
Stevenson, Anne. Collected Poems, 1955-1995. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Stevenson, Anne. Correspondences: A Family History in Letters. Wesleyan University Press, 1974.
Stevenson, Anne. Elizabeth Bishop. Twayne, 1966.
Stevenson, Anne. Enough of Green. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Stevenson, Anne. Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop. Bellew, 1998.
Stevenson, Anne. Four and A Half Dancing Men. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Stevenson, Anne. Granny Scarecrow. Bloodaxe Books, 2000.
Stevenson, Anne. “Hearing the downpour”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4059, p. 65.
Stevenson, Anne. In the Orchard—Poems with Birds. Enitharmon Press, 2016.
Stevenson, Anne. “Inheriting My Grandmother’s Nightmare”. Poetry, Vol.
190
, No. 2, pp. 92-3.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
Stevenson, Anne. “Is the Emperor of Ice-Cream Wearing Clothes?”. New Review, p. 43.
Stevenson, Anne. “Letter”. Poetry, Vol.
189
, No. 3, pp. 244-5.
Stevenson, Anne, and X. J. Kennedy. Living in America. Generation Press, 1965.
Stevenson, Anne. Minute by Glass Minute. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Stevenson, Anne. Poems 1955-2005. Bloodzxe, 2005.
Stevenson, Anne. Reversals. Wesleyan University Press, 1969.
Bellerby, Frances, and Robert Gittings. Selected Poems. Editor Stevenson, Anne, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987.
Stevenson, Anne. The Fiction-Makers. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stevenson, Anne. “The Geographical Mirror”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 31-41.