Table of Contents

"Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell on the Beach at Rio" (pencil study), Ralph Hamilton - frontispiece

Introduction - xix

Part One: Critical Essays

Elizabeth Bishop:Questions of Memory, Questions of Travel
David Kalstone - 3

Domestication, Domesticity, and the Otherworldly
Helen Vendler - 32

The Idion of a Self: Elizabeth Bishop and Wordsworth
Robert Pinsky - 49

"In Prison": A Paradox Regained
David Lehman - 61

"Old Correspondences": Prosodic Transformations in Elizabeth Bishop
Penelope Laurans - 75

A Cold Spring: The Poet of Feeling
Alan Williamson - 96

The Impersonal and the Interrogative in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Bonnie Costello - 109

One Art: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, 1971-1976
Lloyd Schwartz - 133

Elizabeth Bishop's "Natural Heroism"
Willard Spiegelman - 154

Part Two: A Chronology

Archaically New
Marianne Moore - 175

A Modest Expert: North & South
Marianne Moore -  177

On North & South
Louise Bogan - 182

North but South
Oscar Williams - 184

From "Thomas, Bishop, and Williams"
Robert Lowell - 186

New Verse: North & South
Arthur Mizener - 190

"Senhora Helena"
Marianne Moore - 194

From an Interview
Robert Lowell - 197

From "Fifty Years of American Poetry"
Randall Jarrell - 198

On "Skunk Hour": How the Poem Was Written
Robert Lowell - 199

From an Interview
James Merrill - 200

The Complete Poems
John Ashbery - 201

On The Complete Poems
Robert Lowell - 206

For Elizabeth Bishop 4
Robert Lowell - 207

Comment on "In the Waiting Room" and Herbert's "Love Unknown"
Richard Howard - 208

From a Conversation
Mark Strand - 210

Elizabeth Bishop, or the Power of Reticence
Octavio Paz - 211

On Elizabeth Bishop
Frank Bidart - 214

Invitation to Miss Elizabeth Bishop
William Meredith - 216

Description and the Imagination in Elizabeth Bishop's "The Map"
Sybil P. Estess - 219

Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil
Ashley Brown - 223

Her Craft
James Merrill - 241

Elizabeth Bishop Introduction
Mark Strand - 242

Elizabeth Bishop's Mappings of Life
John Hollander - 244

Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979
Lloyd Schwarts - 252

Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979
Robert Pinsky - 255

Elizabeth Bishop
Richard Wilbur - 263

Symposium: I Would Like to Have Written..
Mary McCarthy - 267

Part Three: In Her Own Words

From "Time's Andromedas" - 271

From "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Timing in His Poetry" - 273

From Two Letters to Marianne Moore about "A Miracle for Breakfast" - 276

From "Gregorio Valdes, 1879-1939" - 277

From "As We Like It" - 278

Review of XAIPE: Seventy-one Poems by E. E. Cummings - 280

It All Depends [In Response to a Questionnaire] - 281

From "What the Young man Said to the Psalmist" - 282

From "The Manipulation of Mirrors" - 283

From Introduction to The Diary of "Helena Morley"  - 284

On Life Studies by Robert Lowell - 285

On "The Man-Moth" - 286

On Flannery O'Connor - 287

The "Darwin" Letter - 288

An Interview with Elizabeth Bishop
Ashley Brown - 289

On "Confessional Poetry" - 303

An Inadequate Tribute - 304

On "The Burglar of Babylon" - 305

Lines Written in a Copy of Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Given to Frank Bidart - 306

On Golden State by Frank Bidart - 307

From "A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute" - 308

From Book-of-the-Month Club Interview - 309

Statement for the English Memorial Service for Robert Lowell - 311

"The Work!": A Conversation with Elizabeth Bishop
George Starbuck - 312

Bibliography
Lloyd Schwartz - 331