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, 2002, pp. 175-00.
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Literary responses
Anita Brookner
Among other evaluations, Olga Kenyon
admired AB
's capacity to represent the interiority and social frustrations of gifted undervalued women:
Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan, 1992.
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women with twentieth-century awareness of their problems, which however are problems unchanged since...
Literary responses
Penelope Lively
PL
has had great success as a children's writer from the time that The Ghost of Thomas Kempe won the Carnegie Medal. A Stitch in Time won the Whitbread Award for writing for children in...
Two monographs have been devoted to ET
: one in the Twayne
series by Florence Leclercq, another by N. H. Reeve
, 2008. Leclercq
's analysis left a good deal to be desired. She was...
Textual Production
Anne Stevenson
AS
published Elizabeth Bishop, a title in the Twayne
's United States Authors series of critical studies with prefatory biography.
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Timeline
1949
Dilys Laing
's Walk Through Two Landscapes was the third volume to appear in The Twayne
Library of Modern Poetry.
Texts
Adams, John R. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Twayne, 1989.
Ashley, Leonard R. N. Colley Cibber. Twayne, 1965.