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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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The complete poems, 1927–1979 (1983) 1,988 exemplaren
Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008) 313 exemplaren
Geography III (1976) 310 exemplaren
Poems (2011) 290 exemplaren
One Art (1994) 289 exemplaren
The Collected Prose (1984) 275 exemplaren
Brazil (1962) 93 exemplaren
Prose (2011) 73 exemplaren
The Complete Poems (1969) 70 exemplaren
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) — Redacteur; Vertaler — 69 exemplaren
Poems (2011) 53 exemplaren
Questions of Travel (1965) 50 exemplaren
Exchanging Hats: Paintings (1996) 42 exemplaren
Poems / Prose (2011) 42 exemplaren
North & South (1946) 21 exemplaren
Een wonder als ontbijt (1980) 16 exemplaren
Poemas escolhidos (2012) 14 exemplaren
Una locura cotidiana (1992) 8 exemplaren
Il mare e la sua sponda (2006) 7 exemplaren
Antología poética (2003) 7 exemplaren
Gedichte zweisprachig (2018) 3 exemplaren
Obra completa (2016) 3 exemplaren
Poemas (2000) 3 exemplaren
Soguk Bir Bahar (1997) 3 exemplaren
Selected Poems 3 exemplaren
Poems 1 exemplaar
Casabianca 1 exemplaar
The moose 1 exemplaar
Norte Y Sur (2002) 1 exemplaar
The Fish 1 exemplaar
Ploughshares Vol.2 No.4 (1975) 1 exemplaar
Un printemps froid (2003) 1 exemplaar
Poetry 1 exemplaar
Der stille Wahn (1990) 1 exemplaar
寫給雨季的歌 1 exemplaar
L' arte di perdere (2013) 1 exemplaar

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
BISHOP, Elizabeth
Geboortedatum
1911-02-08
Overlijdensdatum
1979-10-06
Graflocatie
Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
cerebral aneurysm
Woonplaatsen
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cliftondale, Massachusetts, USA
Key West, Florida, USA
Petropolis, Brazil
North Haven, Maine, USA
Opleiding
Vassar College (AB|1934)
Walnut Hill School
North Shore Country Day School
Saugus High School
Beroepen
poet
short-story writer
literary critic
translator
painter
Relaties
Moore, Marianne (friend)
Lowell, Robert (friend)
Soares, Lota de Macedo (lover)
Organisaties
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)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
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) (toon alle 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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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.
 
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cbwalsh | 4 andere besprekingen | Sep 13, 2023 |
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.
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jonbrammer | 23 andere besprekingen | Jul 1, 2023 |
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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leslie.98 | 2 andere besprekingen | Jun 27, 2023 |
Elizabeth Bishop’s collected poems – her life’s work – can be read in a single afternoon. It will take a lot longer than that to ponder its meaning, test it against one’s own life experience, and see oneself reflected in these lines and stanzas. Although the settings change with Bishops’ extensive travels, some themes thread throughout her work – ships and sailors battling rough seas, weary laborers, unrequited or unfulfilled loves and lovers. It’s evident from the frequent biblical allusions that Bishop had a religious education, and it’s also evident Bishop found no solace in religion.

Among the most intriguing poems to me are the ones addressed to Robert Lowell and Marianne Moore. It would be interesting to explore how these highly regarded poets influenced each other’s work.
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