The Numinous Moose
Helen Vendler, 11 March 1993
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It
by Brett Millier.
California, 602 pp., £18.50, April 1993,0 520 07978 7 Show More
by Brett Millier.
California, 602 pp., £18.50, April 1993,
“... in her shawl. This is a God’s-eye view of the history of literature: Chaucer conversing with Dante, Shakespeare with Marlowe, Herbert with Donne, Austen with Thackeray, the Brownings with each other – and now, somewhere, we might add, Bishop with Moore and Lowell. It eliminates nothing that literature confronts – ‘deaths, deaths and ... ”