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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]

Books

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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

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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]

Recognition

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Costello was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.[12] She also became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1990,[13] and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2011.[14]

Her book The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others won the Warren–Brooks Award for 2017.[11]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from catalog entry in German National Library, accessed September 16, 2018
  2. ^ a b "Azer Bestavros, Bonnie Costello Latest Warren Distinguished Professors". Boston University. April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Reviews of Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions:
  4. ^ a b Reviews of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore:
  5. ^ a b Reviews of Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery:
  6. ^ a b Review of The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others:
  7. ^ a b Reviews of Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry:
  8. ^ a b Reviews of Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World:
  9. ^ "Notable Books of the Year 1997: Nonfiction". The New York Times. December 7, 1997.
  10. ^ a b c "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Boston University. October 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  11. ^ a b "Book by Bonnie Costello selected as winner of Warren-Brooks Award". WKU News. Western Kentucky University. January 10, 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  12. ^ "New Members of the Academy" (PDF). Induction. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fall 2002. pp. 5–13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-06-11. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  13. ^ "Bonnie Costello". Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  14. ^ "Bonnie Costello F'11". American Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
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