to be inventive, [Elizabeth] Bishop's is to be attentive. She never once affects a rhetorical flourish, never affects a voice that is anything but conversational, never confesses the chatter of her life. Instead, she writes with distilled, shy discretion. She is a poet of restraint, subtlety and manners--so unlike Alexander Pope's crassness and Walt Whitman's bombast and even, at times, Emily Dickinson's sharp-tongued retorts.
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: High praise for Elizabeth Bishop's artistry and humanity
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