Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery

Abstract

Lionel KELLY: Introduction: Poetry and the Sense of Panic. Mark FORD: Mont d'Espoir or Mount Despair: Early Bishop, Early Ashbery, and the French. Joanne FEIT DIEHL: Aggression and Reparation: Bishop and the Matter-Of-Fact. Benjamin COLBERT: Romantic Entanglements: Ashbery and the Fragment. Helen M. DENNIS: Questions of Travel: Elizabeth Bishop and the Negative Sublime. Dennis BROWN: John Ashbery's A Wave (1983): Time and Western Man. Edward LARRISSY: Is Anything Central?: Ashbery and the Idea of a Centre. Thomas TRAVISANO: Elizabeth Bishop and the Origins of Narrative Postmodernism. Krystyna MAZUR: Unfamiliar Stereotype: Repetition in the Poetry of John Ashbery. John PILLING: Hybrid Mix of Ashbery's Three Poems, or, How Not to Be French. Peter ROBINSON: The Bliss of What? Cheryl WALKER: Metaphysical Surrealism in Bishop. Peter NICHOLLS: John Ashbery and Language Poetry. Geoff WARD: Before and After Language: New American Poetry. Notes on Contributors. Index.