Scope: Elizabeth Bishop's career developed through her abilities as a poet, author of prose, and a translator. Her topics involved life's everyday events. Her most famous works included North and South, Questions of Travel, Trial Balances, and The Collected Prose. For her works, she received awards such as The Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award and the Academy of American Poets Award.

CIRCULATING BOOKS Books of Elizabeth Bishop's works are listed in our on-line catalog under " Bishop, Elizabeth," and under individual titles, i. e. " The Complete Poems." Books written by and about Elizabeth Bishop have the call number(s) PS 3503.I785 1983 Some representative circulating books that are located upstairs in the library are: Doreski, Carole Kiler. Elizabeth Bishop: The Restraints of Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that ado not circulate, but pages may be photocopied.

The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PR 502.C85 1992 Critical Survey of Poetry

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol.5 American poets since World War II

REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers Vol. 1

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• American Literature
• Literature-General

WEB SITES

Elizabeth Bishop: American Poet
http://iberia.vassar.edu/bishop

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu

Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

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Updated 08/16/2007