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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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]

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External links [ edit ]

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