Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature

Angus Cleghorn is Professor of English and Liberal Studies at Seneca College, Canada. He has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014), Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st-Century: Reading the New Editions (2012), authored Wallace Stevens’ Poetics: The Neglected Rhetoric (2000), and published numerous essays on Stevens and Bishop.

• 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.