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Chapter 3 - New York

from Part I - Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2021

Angus Cleghorn
Affiliation:
Seneca College, Canada
Jonathan Ellis
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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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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  • New York
  • Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College, Canada, Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield
  • Book: Elizabeth Bishop in Context
  • Online publication: 06 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856492.005
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  • New York
  • Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College, Canada, Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield
  • Book: Elizabeth Bishop in Context
  • Online publication: 06 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856492.005
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  • New York
  • Edited by Angus Cleghorn, Seneca College, Canada, Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield
  • Book: Elizabeth Bishop in Context
  • Online publication: 06 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108856492.005
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