Bonnie Costello
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Bonnie Costello (born 1950)[1] is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University.[2] Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore,[3][4] Elizabeth Bishop,[5] and W. H. Auden,[6] and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting[7] and still life.[8]
Costello's books include:
- Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (Harvard University Press, 1981)[3]
- Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery (Harvard University Press, 1991)[5]
- Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (Harvard University Press, 2003)[7]
- Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World (Cornell University Press, 2008)[8]
- The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others (Princeton University Press, 2017)[6]
With Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller she edited The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf, 1997)[4], which The New York Times listed as one of the notable books of 1997.[9]
Education and career
Costello is a 1972 graduate of Bennington College.[10] Her doctorate is from Cornell University, in 1977.[10][11] She joined the Boston University faculty in 1977,[10] and became Warren Distinguished Professor in 2017.[2]
