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C.K. Doreski: On "The Filling Station" Elizabeth Bishop Filling Station Poem Criticism delineate; social; cultural; feminine; voice; prissiness; flighty; diminutive; amused; disgust; alien; unctuous; teeter; domestic; soil
Anne Colewell: On "One Art" Elizabeth Bishop One Art Poem Criticism Tone; Villanelle; Duality; shan’t
Bonnie Costello: On "Pink Dog" Elizabeth Bishop Pink Dog Poem Criticism social anxiety; physical anxiety; costume; empathy; marginality; repression; fear; troubled speaker
Susan McCabe: On "One Art" Elizabeth Bishop One Art Poem Criticism loss; disaster; J.D. McClatchy; Freud; autobiographical; Rhyme; James Merrill; personal; mourning; Jacques Lacan; love; Lorrie Goldensohn; Villanelle; Adrienne Rich
Stephen Yenser on "Memories of West Street and Lepke" Robert Lowell Memories of West Street and Lepke Poem Criticism Marlborough Street; Jail; New York; During Fever; isolation; Agonizing; Lepke
Marilyn May Lombardi: On "Questions of Travel" Elizabeth Bishop Questions of Travel Poem Criticism Travel; adventurer; expedition
Bonnie Costello: On "The Filling Station" Elizabeth Bishop Filling Station Poem Criticism Bonnie Costello; emotions; Somebody loves us all; active displacement; sardonic; begonia; diction; Image; broader sense
C. K. Doreski: On "One Art" Elizabeth Bishop One Art Poem Criticism loss; disaster; philosophy; Struggle; chaos; order; Sestina; Villanelle
C. K. Doreski: On "The Armadillo" Elizabeth Bishop The Armadillo Poem Criticism anger; outcry; fire; chaos; destruction; Wordsworth; Nature; environmentalism
Grace Akers on Poem Criticism love; family; feminism; appreciation; observation
Elizabeth Dodd on "One Art" One Art Poem Criticism One Art; loss; Elegy; Villanelle; casual tone; strict form
Lee Edelman: On "In the Waiting Room" Elizabeth Bishop In the Waiting Room Poem Criticism Community; isolation; Individual; National Geographic; Africa; Literal; Literality; Textuality; Femininity; Patriarchy; Waiting
Penelope Laurens: On "The Armadillo" Elizabeth Bishop The Armadillo Poem Criticism animals; balloon; distance; metrical variation; spontaneity
David Kalstone: On "Memories of West Street and Lepke" General Poet Criticism West Street Jail; experiences; connections; privileged; New York City; Boston; compare
Louise Glück: On "Dream Song 1" John Berryman Dream Song 1 Poem Criticism lyric; voice; noise; purpose; cross-purpose; self; firm self; point of view; fate; commentary
Thomas Travisano: On "For the Union Dead" Robert Lowell For the Union Dead Poem Criticism loss; super-realism; visuals; Latin; relinquishment; monuments; Colonel Shaw; postmodernism; Randall Jarrell; Berryman; metamorphasis; survivors
Alan Williamson on: "Memories of West Street and Lepke" Robert Lowell Memories of West Street and Lepke Poem Criticism children; Irony; appearances; connections; heart; Paradox
Helen Vendler: On "For the Union Dead" Robert Lowell For the Union Dead Poem Criticism Boston; Boston Arts Festival; Robert Gould Shaw; Augustus Saint Gaudens; Boston State House; Irish; immigrant Irish; Aquarium; Boston Common; burial; aesthetic; Massachusetts 54th Regiment; Battle of Fort Wagner
Mutlu Konuk Blasing on "The Filling Station" Poem Criticism oil; dirty; greasy; taboret; automobile; doily
Lowell: On"For the Dead Union" Poem Criticism Historical; Boston; past; present; CivilWar; AllenTate; Shaw; Memorial; ethical; comparison
Steven Gould Axelrod on "Skunk Hour" Poem Criticism Nature; stain; sterility; ill; heiress; automobiles; steamshovels; scenery; sexuality; loveless
Alan Williamson Poem Criticism Alan Williamson; Robert Lowell; Colonel Shaw; abstract images; bear; snake; horseshoe crab; Civil War; confederate dead
Adrienne Rich: On "Negro Minstrelsy" in The Dream Songs John Berryman The Dream Songs Poem Criticism blackface dialect; persona; political; rational; negritude; nigger talk; supreme dialect
Robert Lowell Poem Criticism
Memories of West Street Memories of West Street Poem Criticism relativism; imagery; clothing; absorption; confident; penetration; mature; Irony; manacle; instincts; depersonalization; Identity; book-worming; confession; authority
Joel Athey on: John Berryman John Berryman Biographical
Thomas Gardner: On "Dream Song 5" John Berryman Dream Song 5 Poem Criticism stanza; pair of lines; Crèvecoeur
Helen Vendler on: "The Dream Songs" John Berryman The Dream Songs Poem Criticism dream; psychology; Superego; Id; Freudian; Vaudeville; Conscience
John Berryman on "The Dream Songs" John Berryman Interview
John Berryman Interview with John Plotz John Berryman Interview