elizabeth bishop and robert lowell

Bishop sites with potted biographies and reliable introductions: at the Academy, at the University of Illinois, and at the Poetry Foundation.

Barbara Page's Elizabeth Bishop site at Vassar College, and its comprehensive bibliography.

Bishop reads "The Armadillo."

Charles Baudelaire's sonnet "Correspondances"(compare to Bishop's "The Bight").

Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard, with audio of ten poems from North and South.

Also from the Academy, the poet and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz on her recently discovered love poems, and the poet Katie Ford on Bishop and obsession.

Bishop (and Stevens and others) in Key West.

Some of the many letters between Bishop and Lowell. More of those letters, excerpted in The Believer.

Helen Vendler in the New York Review of Books on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters: "What was it that made 'Cal' and 'Elizabeth'... so necessary to each other's happiness?"

Dan Chiasson, in the New Yorker, on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters.

Christopher Benfey, in the New Republic, on the same book.

William Logan, in the New York Times Book Review, on the same book.

Adam Kirsch appreciates Lowell's last book, Day by Day.

John Palatella, in Boston Review, on Bishop's posthumously published drafts of poems.

David Orr in the NYT Book Review on the same book: "You are living in a world created by Elizabeth Bishop."

Meghan O'Rourke of Slate on the Bishop controversy.