Ellis, J. (2020) Under the influence: Elizabeth Bishop’s England and Frances Leviston’s Louisiana. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 18 (2). pp. 152-176. ISSN 1479-4012
Abstract
Elizabeth Bishop’s relationship to the literal places she lived in, travelled through and sometimes made home, has long been a key concern of critics and readers. What interests me in this article is Bishop’s relationship to a country she visited on just a few occasions, namely England. In so doing, I intend to focus not so much on Bishop’s experiences in England—she made short trips there in the 1930s, 1960s and 1970s—but rather on her idea of England as a poetic home and the extent to which contemporary poets in Britain and Ireland have been influenced by her writing. Bishop’s England is thus at least two things here, a body of literature she herself reads and reinterprets in her poetry, and, more recently, a national poetry that has itself become Bishopesque in light of her contemporary popularity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Editor of the Journal. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Transatlantic Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Elizabeth Bishop; Frances Leviston; poetic influence; travel; Twentieth-Century Literature; Contemporary Literature |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2020 14:59 |
Last Modified: | 24 May 2024 10:42 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/s42738-020-00044-z |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156344 |