Chasing the Man-Moth
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/11/chasing-the-man-moth
This essay delves deep into the context surrounding this poem, in particular shedding doubt on its supposed origin in a newspaper column. Through this angle, the essay's author close-reads the poem and places it in the broader context of the collection in which it appears, as well as the context of Bishop's career and twentieth-century poetry.
