Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature

Contents

• 1. Introduction. . -
• 2. "I am in Need of Music": Elizabeth Bishop and the Energies of Sound and Song.-
• 3. Music of the Sea: Elizabeth Bishop and Symbolist Poetics.-
• 4. The Rhythm of Syntax in Elizabeth Bishop's "At the Fishhouses".-
• 5. "Hearing Things": Voice and Rhyme in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop.-
• 6. Causes for Excess: Elizabeth Bishop's Eighty-Eight Exclamations.-
• 7. 'A Very Important Violence of Tone': Bishop's 'Roosters' and Other Poems.-
• 8. "Spontaneity occurs in a good attack ": Voice Control in Late Bishop.-
• 9. Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian Popular Music: From Anonymous Sambas to Contemporary Composers.-
• 10. 'In Need of Music': Musical Settings of Elizabeth Bishop.