Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War view

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"Elizabeth Bishop's World War II - Cold War View offers the first comprehensive portrayal of the poet in mid-century America. The elusive story of Bishop's national, cultural, and literary politics during the World War II - Cold War period finally is brought into sharp focus - as the book traces her life and writing from the war years in Key West through her tenure as the 1949-1950 national poet laureate at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Our understanding of Bishop is completely reshaped by this study's unique ability to easily move back and forth between a wide-ranging cultural critique of mid-century America and a careful, close, and chronological reading of the poet."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Politics and literature,  War in literature,  History and criticism,  Political and social views,  Political poetry, American,  World War, 1939-1945,  American Political poetry,  Literature and the war,  Cold War in literature,  History,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  Bishop, elizabeth, 1911-1979

People: Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Places: United States

Times: 20th century