Natural history and epiphany: Elizabeth Bishop's Darwin Letter

Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2004 by Zachariah Pickard

Notes

1. For a full discussion of Bishop's rejection of surrealism, see my article "The Attack on Surrealism."

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