Book contents
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Chapter 1 Nova Scotia
- Chapter 2 New England
- Chapter 3 New York
- Chapter 4 Paris
- Chapter 5 Florida
- Chapter 6 Brazil
- Part II Forms
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Politics, Society and Culture
- Part V Identity
- Part VI Reception and Criticism
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 3 - New York
from Part I - Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2021
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Elizabeth Bishop in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Chapter 1 Nova Scotia
- Chapter 2 New England
- Chapter 3 New York
- Chapter 4 Paris
- Chapter 5 Florida
- Chapter 6 Brazil
- Part II Forms
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Politics, Society and Culture
- Part V Identity
- Part VI Reception and Criticism
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Bishop’s Florida, Brazil, and Nova Scotia poems have, over the years, accrued significant scholarly attention. This chapter turns to a less clearly delineated set of New York poems and argues that from her early years in the city as a recent graduate (1934–5) into the late 1960s and beyond, New York’s culture and environment exerted a pull on Bishop’s imagination and an influence on her aesthetic. We see this from early poems and drafts such as “Love Lies Sleeping” (1937) and “Varick Street” (1947) to much later ones including “Five Flights Up” (c.1973) which, although not necessarily written in or even explicitly about New York, is nevertheless inflected by her experience and memories of it.
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- Elizabeth Bishop in Context , pp. 38 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021