Elizabeth Bishop’s Grammar School for the Aspect-Blind and A-rhetorical
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This paper uses Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance” as an exemplar that displays the centrality of aspect perception in her work.
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