Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
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An American poet, Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911. Following the death of her father and the extended illness of her mother, Bishop was raised by relatives. During World War I she lived in Nova Scotia. She graduated from Vassar in 1934 and later traveled in Europe and näytä lisää Africa. For many years she lived in Brazil. She returned to the United States in 1970. In 1945, North and South, Bishop's first book, was published. Her Complete Poems (1969) won the National Book Award in 1970. With Emanuel Brasil, Bishop coedited An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) Her influence on other poets was not obvious during her life, but many have tried to emulate her distinctive talent, and her reputation continues to grow. Bishop died in 1979. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box: uncollected poems, drafts, and fragments (2006) 244 kappaletta, 3 arvostelua
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (2008) 230 kappaletta, 4 arvostelua
Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (1989) 87 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
O Iceberg Imaginário e Outros Poemas 7 kappaletta
The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon 4 kappaletta
The Little of our Earthly Trust 3 kappaletta
Selected Poems 3 kappaletta
Casabianca 1 kappale
Brasilien (LIFE Länder und Völker) 1 kappale
The imaginary iceberg 1 kappale
The moose 1 kappale
Conscious Service: Ten ways to reclaim your calling, move beyond burnout, and make a difference without sacrificing… (2022) 1 kappale
Becoming Activist: Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing (Critical Praxis and Curriculum Guides) (2015) 1 kappale
Poems 1 kappale
Dai libri di geografia 1 kappale
Poetry 1 kappale
寫給雨季的歌 1 kappale
Poem / Elizabeth Bishop 1 kappale
Bishop, Elizabeth Archive 1 kappale
The Complete Poems 1927-79 1 kappale
Ve vesnici : a jiné prózy 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Avustaja — 1,276 kappaletta, 9 arvostelua
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 932 kappaletta, 7 arvostelua
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Avustaja — 834 kappaletta, 11 arvostelua
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Avustaja — 715 kappaletta, 6 arvostelua
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Avustaja — 552 kappaletta, 11 arvostelua
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Avustaja — 409 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Avustaja — 174 kappaletta
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Avustaja — 152 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Avustaja — 100 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Avustaja — 93 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Avustaja — 69 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Avustaja — 35 kappaletta
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta, 2 arvostelua
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Muut nimet
- BISHOP, Elizabeth
- Syntymäaika
- 1911-02-08
- Kuolinaika
- 1979-10-06
- Hautapaikka
- Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Kuolinsyy
- cerebral aneurysm
- Asuinpaikat
- Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cliftondale, Massachusetts, USA
Key West, Florida, USA
Petropolis, Brazil
North Haven, Maine, USA - Koulutus
- Vassar College (AB|1934)
Walnut Hill School
North Shore Country Day School
Saugus High School - Ammatit
- poet
short-story writer
literary critic
translator
painter - Suhteet
- Moore, Marianne (friend)
Lowell, Robert (friend)
Soares, Lota de Macedo (lover) - Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1976)
Academy of American Poets (chancellor, 1966-79)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1968)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1954)
Harvard University (teacher) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Shelley Memorial Award (1953)
Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship in Poetry (1957-1958)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1964)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1949-1950)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1951)
Lucy Martin Donnelly fellowship (1956) (näytä kaikki 14)
Order of Rio Branco (1969)
Harriet Monroe Poetry Award (1974)
Elizabeth Bishop House
Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1976)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1956)
National Book Award for Poetry (1970)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1977)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2010)
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Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between… Tekijä: Elizabeth Bishop
This is a book I'll keep dipping into in front of the fire, the poems at hand, without concern for finishing.
Thought I would love this collection but I was left feeling lukewarm. While In the Waiting Room and Night City were my favorites, I didn't really feel much for the other poems.
Possibly my favorite poem of all time, "Skunk Hour" by Robert Lowell, is dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop, so I had to check her out.
Many of these poems are impressionistic, capturing a moment - like "Late Air". Some use extended metaphor, like "The Unbeliever" - taking a line from John Bunyan about the dangers of unbelief and twisting it into something different - making it seem that the atheist is both able to dream differently than those on the deck below:
Asleep he was transported there
asleep he curled
in a gilded ball at the mast's top,
or climbed inside
a gilded bird, or blindly seated himself astride
The metaphor becomes something strange and mysterious - what is the unbeliever? A dreamer? A sage?
Bishop likes to weave natural imagery in with the emotions and ideas expressed in her poems - a classic example is "The Fish", where the defeat of the veteran fish by the fisherman is problematized by the imagery of the decrepit boat, where there is a "pool of bilge / where oil had spread a rainbow / around the rusted engine"
The fish is something noble battling against the crude ugly trappings of man.… (lisätietoja)
Many of these poems are impressionistic, capturing a moment - like "Late Air". Some use extended metaphor, like "The Unbeliever" - taking a line from John Bunyan about the dangers of unbelief and twisting it into something different - making it seem that the atheist is both able to dream differently than those on the deck below:
Asleep he was transported there
asleep he curled
in a gilded ball at the mast's top,
or climbed inside
a gilded bird, or blindly seated himself astride
The metaphor becomes something strange and mysterious - what is the unbeliever? A dreamer? A sage?
Bishop likes to weave natural imagery in with the emotions and ideas expressed in her poems - a classic example is "The Fish", where the defeat of the veteran fish by the fisherman is problematized by the imagery of the decrepit boat, where there is a "pool of bilge / where oil had spread a rainbow / around the rusted engine"
The fish is something noble battling against the crude ugly trappings of man.… (lisätietoja)
I have never read correspondence before (except in epistolary novels) so I was pleasantly surprised by how readable it was. These letters cover a 30 year span which allows the reader to really get to know Bishop and Lowell. I would recommend either reading their poetry first or having it handy to refer to as (not surprisingly) there are a lot of references to specific poems (even to specific lines or words in the poems).
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