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Reviewed on March 15, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Irish novelist Tóibín (Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, Columbia Univ.; Nora Webster) provides a personalized account of poet Elizabeth Bishop's (1911–79) life and works and their influence on his own work as a writer after he discovered her poetry at age 19. Tóibín notes the deep sense of loss pervading Bishop's experience and writing resulting from the l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
