Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)

James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishops poems as more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime and called her our greatest national treasure. Robert Lowell said, I enjoy her poems more than anybody elses. Long before a wider public was aware of Bishops work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of Americas great poets of the twentieth century.

This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Elizabeth Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes asNorth & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, andGeography III. In addition it contains an extensive selecti