Bishop, Building Up to the Immeasurable

Elizabeth Bishop

The notion of something beyond the human, exemplified by the ocean harbor water in Bishop’s “At the Fishhouses”—large, not necessarily benign, and presented at a “lyrical pace,” unlike the “epic pace” of Gilgamesh.

  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • 20th Century
  • English
  • What is “Great”
  • Conversation
  • Greatness
  • The Art of Poetry