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Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

Forfatter af The complete poems, 1927–1979

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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Elizabeth Bishop

The complete poems, 1927–1979 (1983) 1,988 eksemplarer
Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008) 313 eksemplarer
Geography III (1976) 310 eksemplarer
Poems (2011) 290 eksemplarer
One Art (1994) 289 eksemplarer
The Collected Prose (1984) 275 eksemplarer
Brazil (1962) 93 eksemplarer
Prose (2011) 73 eksemplarer
The Complete Poems (1969) 70 eksemplarer
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) — Redaktør; Oversætter — 69 eksemplarer
Poems (2011) 53 eksemplarer
Questions of Travel (1965) 50 eksemplarer
Exchanging Hats: Paintings (1996) 42 eksemplarer
Poems / Prose (2011) 42 eksemplarer
North & South (1946) 21 eksemplarer
Miracolo a colazione (1980) 16 eksemplarer
Poemas escolhidos (2012) 14 eksemplarer
Una locura cotidiana (1992) 8 eksemplarer
Verliezen is een kunst gedichten (2004) 7 eksemplarer
Il mare e la sua sponda (2006) 7 eksemplarer
Antología poética (2003) 7 eksemplarer
Gedichte zweisprachig (2018) 3 eksemplarer
Obra completa (2016) 3 eksemplarer
Poemas (2000) 3 eksemplarer
Soguk Bir Bahar (1997) 3 eksemplarer
Selected Poems 3 eksemplarer
Poems 1 eksemplar
Casabianca 1 eksemplar
The moose 1 eksemplar
Norte Y Sur (2002) 1 eksemplar
The Fish 1 eksemplar
Ploughshares Vol.2 No.4 (1975) 1 eksemplar
Un printemps froid (2003) 1 eksemplar
Poetry 1 eksemplar
Der stille Wahn (1990) 1 eksemplar
寫給雨季的歌 1 eksemplar
L' arte di perdere (2013) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,254 eksemplarer
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver915 eksemplarer
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 829 eksemplarer
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Bidragyder — 749 eksemplarer
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Bidragyder — 545 eksemplarer
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver443 eksemplarer
Contemporary American Poetry (1962) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver384 eksemplarer
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Bidragyder — 297 eksemplarer
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver284 eksemplarer
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
The Best American Poetry 2001 (2001) — Bidragyder — 223 eksemplarer
The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) — Bidragyder — 208 eksemplarer
The Art of Losing (2010) — Bidragyder — 197 eksemplarer
Love Letters (1996) — Bidragyder — 180 eksemplarer
Eight American Poets: An Anthology (1994) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver178 eksemplarer
The Diary of "Helena Morley" (1942) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver163 eksemplarer
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Bidragyder — 162 eksemplarer
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Bidragyder — 140 eksemplarer
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Bidragyder — 111 eksemplarer
Emergency Kit (1996) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver108 eksemplarer
The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Bidragyder — 102 eksemplarer
Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1958) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Bidragyder — 74 eksemplarer
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
American Sonnets: An Anthology (2007) — Bidragyder — 65 eksemplarer
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Bidragyder — 56 eksemplarer
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (1996) — Bidragyder — 49 eksemplarer
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems (1986) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver40 eksemplarer
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop (1996) — Associated Name — 25 eksemplarer
One World of Literature (1992) — Bidragyder — 24 eksemplarer
Selected Poetry, 1937-1990 (Wesleyan Poetry) (1994) — Oversætter — 20 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of the Ocean (2010) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
The Poetry Cure (2005) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Modern Women Poets (2005) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Alfabet op de rug gezien (1995) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1949 (1949) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Life and letters today, Spring 1937 (1937) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Best of American Poetry [Audio] (1997) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Life and letters today, November 1938 (1938) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Life and letters today, Spring 1936 (1936) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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Andre navne
BISHOP, Elizabeth
Fødselsdato
1911-02-08
Dødsdag
1979-10-06
Begravelsessted
Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Dødssted
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dødsårsag
cerebral aneurysm
Bopæl
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cliftondale, Massachusetts, USA
Key West, Florida, USA
Petropolis, Brazil
North Haven, Maine, USA
Uddannelse
Vassar College (AB|1934)
Walnut Hill School
North Shore Country Day School
Saugus High School
Erhverv
poet
short-story writer
literary critic
translator
painter
Relationer
Moore, Marianne (friend)
Lowell, Robert (friend)
Soares, Lota de Macedo (lover)
Organisationer
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)
Priser og hædersbevisninger
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) (vis 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 andre anmeldelser | 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 andre anmeldelser | 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 andre anmeldelser | 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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cbl_tn | 23 andre anmeldelser | Apr 1, 2023 |

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