A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Elizabeth Bishop, favoring signed articles by known scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Ausubel, Jonathan. A scholarly paper examines the language of domination and submission in Bishop's poetry, contending that there is a persistent social subtext in her poems that extends well beyond gender. "Subjected People: Towards a Grammar for the Underclass in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry." Connotations 4.1-2 (1994-95): 83-97. Lengthy critical responses to this article follow. (removed)
Axelrod, Steven Gould. Elizabeth Bishop: Nova Scotia in Brazil Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2001
Barker, Ilse. A talk about Bishop's life. "The Search for the Earthly Paradise," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed)
Barry, Sandra. Scholarly paper discusses how Bishop was affected by family and place in both her formative years as an artist and her mature aesthetic. "An Artist in the House," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Benigni, Michael. "The Oracular Imagination in Elizabeth Bishop," in Antigonish Review #123.
Bidney, Martin. "Controlled Panic" Mastering the Terrors of Dissolution and Isolation in Elizabeth Bishop's Epiphanies Style, Fall, 2000
Carson, Luke. James Merrill's manners and Elizabeth Bishop's dismay Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 2004
Costello, Bonnie. The influence of W.H. Auden on Elizabeth Bishop. "Auden and Bishop," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Doreski, C.K. Proustian closure in Wallace Steven's "The Rock" and Elizabeth Bishop's "Geography III." Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1998
Fast, Robin Riley. "Moore, Bishop, and Oliver thinking back, re-seeking the sea." [Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and Mary Oliver]. Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1993
Flynn, Richard. Scholarly paper discusses Bishop as the consummate poet of childhood. "'Home-made! But aren't we all?': Crusoe in the Nursery," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Frost, Carol. Elizabeth Bishop's Inner Eye New England Review, 2004
Gardner, Thomas. A scholarly paper compares poet Jorie Graham's visual writing techniques with Bishop's, contending that Graham's style puts her squarely in Bishop territory. "Elizabeth Bishop and Jorie Graham: Suffering the Limits of Description," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Gilbert, Roger. "Framing Water: Historical Knowledge in Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich," Scholarly article excerpt discusses similarities of language and intellectual differences, in regard to questions of knowledge, history, and the metaphor of immersion, in Elizabeth Bishop's "At the Fishhouses" and Adrienne Rich's "Diving Into the Wreck." Twentieth Century Literature (Summer 1997)
Graf, Anastasia. Representing the Other A Conversation among Mikhail Bakhtin, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wislawa Szymborska, in Comparative Literature, Winter 2005
Huang-Tiller, Gillian C. A scholarly paper discusses Bishop's progressive destabilizing and disruption of the sonnet form. "Elizabeth Bishop's Feminist Poetic Travel From 'Sonnet' (1928) to 'Sonnet' (1979)," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Longenbach, James R. Review of Modern poetry after modernism (Oxford University Press, 1997)."Cogently argued, filled with close readings that are impressive for their logic and lucidity, clearly composed out of a passionately sympathetic engagement with the poetry that is its object, and eloquently, sometimes beautifully written, Modern Poetry After Modernism is a powerful treatment of what Longenbach calls second- and third-wave poets of the twentieth-century." Covers Bishop, Jarrell, Wilbur, Richard Howard, Pinsky, Clampitt, Ashbery, and Jorie Graham. In College Literature, Fall 1998. Reviewed by Michael Thurston
McCorkle, James. A scholarly paper compares Bishop's "Crusoe in England" and Derek Walcott's "Crusoe's Island," and the effort in both poems to attain a lyric identity with Robinson Crusoe. "Colonialism, Gender, and Lyric Identity: Refigurations of Crusoe in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Derek Walcott," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Pickard, Zachariah. Natural history and epiphany Elizabeth Bishop's Darwin Letter Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2004
Raab, Josef. A scholarly paper investigates Bishop's social and political concerns. Although Bishop was a socialist, she avoided direct discussion of politics in her poetry, prose and letters. "The Political Dimension of Elizabeth Bishop," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Rosenbaum, Susan. A scholarly paper discusses Bishop's dislike of the confessional style in poetry. "Re-Reading Confessional Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and the Confessional Moment in American Poetry," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Schwartz, Lloyd. An article on the continuities in Bishop's poetry from North and South to Geography III. By Lloyd Schwartz in Ploughshares, Spring 1977.
Shifrer, Anne. A scholarly paper shows how Bishop's delight in objects was more than an aesthetic impulse; she also had an ethnographer's relish of objects as repositories of hidden lives and cultural meanings. "Elizabeth Bishop as Delicate Ethnographer," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
Shore, Jane. "Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Changing your Mind," A readable, non-technical article about Bishop's brilliance in language and using metaphors. Ploughshares, Spring 1979.
Walker, Cheryl. A scholarly paper explores new terrain in Bishop criticism, reading her as a poet of the spirit. "Reading Elizabeth Bishop as a Religious Poet," from a Symposium at Vassar, September 1994 (removed).
An exercise for analyzing tone in poetry using Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" as an example, from Bedford St. Martins. An exercise on symbolism in the same poem.
An introduction to Bishop from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
An extended, introductory article on Elizabeth Bishop's career, includes list of works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation
An introduction to Bishop from the Random House web site publication, by Ernie Hilbert, no date.
A conversation with Elizabeth Bishop by George Starbuck, Ploughshares Spring 1977
Excerpts from reputable critical discussions of the following poems: The Fish, The Man-Moth, At the Fishhouses, Filling Station, Questions of Travel, The Armadillo, In the Waiting Room, Pink Dog, Crusoe in England, One Art. From Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois).
Issues and questions for teachers and readers of Bishop's poetry, from Heath guides.
Gagnier, Bruce. Elizabeth Bishop at Tibor de Nagy - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions - Art in America, June, 1997
A very brief introduction to Elizabeth Bishop from the Academy of American Poets.
A succinct summary of modern American poetry discusses Bishop's importance, from the Academy of American Poets site.
removed An accessible article on Bishop's poetry. Introduction by Lloyd Schwartz in The Atlantic Online, March 29, 2000. (removed)
Primary and secondary bibliography for Elizabeth Bishop from Dr. Paul R. Reuben Perspectives in American Literature
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