Vidyan Ravinthiran is lecturer in English studies at Durham University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Poetry and Prose-RhythmChapter Two: Bishop’s DescriptionChapter Three: Bishop’s LettersChapter Four: Bishop’s Literary ProseChapter Five: “Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics”: Hybrid RhythmChapter Six: “Santarém” and the Aesthetic ClaimChapter Seven: Postscript: “One Art” and its DraftsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic represents a compelling and fundamental breakthrough in Elizabeth Bishop scholarship as well as in the study of literary genre. . . .In other words, this book is highly ambitious in its rendering of Bishop’s nuanced poetics and prosaic style. The book is beautifully written, informed not just by Bishop critics but also by important (and neglected) poetry critics of at least the last 100 years. . . .The book will be a building block for further studies of Bishop’s prose rhythms, and her innovative poetics in the ongoing evolution of poetry. Scholars and poets will delight on hundreds of pithy observations, fresh readings and analyses made here. . . .We have no doubt that this is a book that will both change Bishop scholarship at the same time as refining our understanding of twentieth-century poetic history.

Vidyan Ravinthiran is lecturer in English studies at Durham University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Poetry and Prose-RhythmChapter Two: Bishop’s DescriptionChapter Three: Bishop’s LettersChapter Four: Bishop’s Literary ProseChapter Five: “Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics”: Hybrid RhythmChapter Six: “Santarém” and the Aesthetic ClaimChapter Seven: Postscript: “One Art” and its DraftsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic represents a compelling and fundamental breakthrough in Elizabeth Bishop scholarship as well as in the study of literary genre. . . .In other words, this book is highly ambitious in its rendering of Bishop’s nuanced poetics and prosaic style. The book is beautifully written, informed not just by Bishop critics but also by important (and neglected) poetry critics of at least the last 100 years. . . .The book will be a building block for further studies of Bishop’s prose rhythms, and her innovative poetics in the ongoing evolution of poetry. Scholars and poets will delight on hundreds of pithy observations, fresh readings and analyses made here. . . .We have no doubt that this is a book that will both change Bishop scholarship at the same time as refining our understanding of twentieth-century poetic history.

Vidyan Ravinthiran is lecturer in English studies at Durham University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Poetry and Prose-RhythmChapter Two: Bishop’s DescriptionChapter Three: Bishop’s LettersChapter Four: Bishop’s Literary ProseChapter Five: “Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics”: Hybrid RhythmChapter Six: “Santarém” and the Aesthetic ClaimChapter Seven: Postscript: “One Art” and its DraftsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic represents a compelling and fundamental breakthrough in Elizabeth Bishop scholarship as well as in the study of literary genre. . . .In other words, this book is highly ambitious in its rendering of Bishop’s nuanced poetics and prosaic style. The book is beautifully written, informed not just by Bishop critics but also by important (and neglected) poetry critics of at least the last 100 years. . . .The book will be a building block for further studies of Bishop’s prose rhythms, and her innovative poetics in the ongoing evolution of poetry. Scholars and poets will delight on hundreds of pithy observations, fresh readings and analyses made here. . . .We have no doubt that this is a book that will both change Bishop scholarship at the same time as refining our understanding of twentieth-century poetic history.