Russell, Sue. Elizabeth Bishop: Overview. Gay & Lesbian Literature, vol. 2, Gale, 1998.
Dickie, Margaret. Elizabeth Bishop: Text and Subtext. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002. (Originally published in South Atlantic Review, vol. 59, no. 4, Nov. 1994, pp. 1-19).
Scott, Nathan A., Jr. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet without Myth. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002. (Originally published in Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 60, no. 2, Spring 1984, pp. 255-275).
Vendler, Helen. The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop. (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism), edited by Janet Witalec, vol. 121, Gale, 2002. (Originally published in Critical Inquiry, vol. 13, no. 4, Summer 1987, pp. 825-838).
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linkPoems for study: ‘Little Red-Cap’, ‘Queen Herod’, ‘Mrs Midas’, ‘Mrs Aesop’, ‘Mrs Darwin’, ‘Mrs Sisyphus’, ‘Mrs Faust’, ‘Anne Hathaway’, ‘Medusa’, ‘Circe’, ‘Mrs Lazarus’, ‘Mrs Icarus’, ‘Eurydice’, ‘The Kray Sisters’, ‘Elvis’s Twin Sister’, ‘Pope Joan’, ‘Penelope’, ‘Demeter’
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linkPoems for study: ‘Adam’s Curse’, ‘To a Shade’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Among School Children’, ‘In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz’, ‘Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931’, ‘Byzantium’, ‘A Last Confession’, ‘The Curse of Cromwell’, ‘The Man and the Echo’
The Hazards by Sarah Holland-Batt.
Poems for study: ‘Medusa’, ‘The Orchid House’, ‘A Scrap of Lace’, ‘This Landscape Before Me’, ‘An Illustrated History of Settlement’, ‘Approaching Paradise’, ‘Essay on the Toucan’, ‘Orange-Bellied Parrot’, ‘Possum’, ‘Muttonbird’, ‘Beauty is a Ticket of Admission to All Spectacles’, ‘Primavera: The Graces’, ‘Interbellum’, ‘The Flowers on his Bedside Speak of Eternity’, ‘Insurgency’, ‘Night Sonnet’, ‘The Atlantic’, ‘The Hazards’
Poems for study: ‘18Cs’, ‘Iogonliveon’, ‘Chermy’, ‘Bold & Beautiful’, ‘The Only Blak Queer in the World’, ‘A ship-shaped hole in the forest’, ‘Expert’, ‘Women are still not being heard’, ‘Treaty of shared power’, ‘Queens’, ‘All that is loved (can be saved)’, ‘this deadly love’, ‘I used to have a name (for this)’, ‘Terra Nova’, ‘I grieve in sleep’, ‘Paper ships’
