[Robert] Lowell always seems to be stuffing her newest poem into his billfold, so he can take it out later like a hundred-dollar bill. [Elizabeth] Bishop saw immediately how strange and even shocking "Life Studies" (1959) was (its confessional style caused as violent an earthquake in American poetry as "The Waste Land"); but he noticed something more subtle, that she rarely repeated herself. Each time she wrote, it was as if she were reinventing what she did with words, while he tended to repeat his forms until he had driven them into the ground, or driven everyone crazy with them. from The New York Times: 'I Write Entirely for You'
also The Village Voice: A Great Poetic Twosome: The Elizabeth Bishop-Robert Lowell Letters
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