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Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

Autor/a de The complete poems, 1927–1979

75+ obres 4,755 Membres 49 Ressenyes 64 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Elizabeth Bishop

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

Obres associades

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Col·laborador — 1,552 exemplars
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Col·laborador — 1,254 exemplars
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions915 exemplars
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Col·laborador — 829 exemplars
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990) — Col·laborador — 749 exemplars
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Col·laborador — 706 exemplars
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Col·laborador — 545 exemplars
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions443 exemplars
Contemporary American Poetry (1962) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions384 exemplars
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Col·laborador — 297 exemplars
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions284 exemplars
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Col·laborador — 275 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 2001 (2001) — Col·laborador — 223 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) — Col·laborador — 208 exemplars
The Art of Losing (2010) — Col·laborador — 197 exemplars
Love Letters (1996) — Col·laborador — 180 exemplars
Eight American Poets: An Anthology (1994) — Editor, algunes edicions178 exemplars
The Diary of "Helena Morley" (1942) — Traductor, algunes edicions163 exemplars
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Col·laborador — 162 exemplars
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Col·laborador — 140 exemplars
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Col·laborador — 111 exemplars
Emergency Kit (1996) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions108 exemplars
The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Col·laborador — 102 exemplars
Stories from The New Yorker, 1950 to 1960 (1958) — Col·laborador — 80 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 74 exemplars
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
American Sonnets: An Anthology (2007) — Col·laborador — 65 exemplars
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Col·laborador — 63 exemplars
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (1996) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars
Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems (1986) — Traductor, algunes edicions40 exemplars
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop (1996) — Associated Name — 25 exemplars
One World of Literature (1992) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Selected Poetry, 1937-1990 (Wesleyan Poetry) (1994) — Traductor — 20 exemplars
The Penguin Book of the Ocean (2010) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
The Poetry Cure (2005) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Modern Women Poets (2005) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Alfabet op de rug gezien (1995) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
The Best American Short Stories 1949 (1949) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Life and letters today, Spring 1937 (1937) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Art of Life: An Anthology of Literature about Life and Work (1997) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Best of American Poetry [Audio] (1997) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Life and letters today, November 1938 (1938) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Life and letters today, Spring 1936 (1936) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Altres noms
BISHOP, Elizabeth
Data de naixement
1911-02-08
Data de defunció
1979-10-06
Lloc d'enterrament
Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Lloc de defunció
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Causa de la mort
cerebral aneurysm
Llocs de residència
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cliftondale, Massachusetts, USA
Key West, Florida, USA
Petropolis, Brazil
North Haven, Maine, USA
Educació
Vassar College (AB|1934)
Walnut Hill School
North Shore Country Day School
Saugus High School
Professions
poet
short-story writer
literary critic
translator
painter
Relacions
Moore, Marianne (friend)
Lowell, Robert (friend)
Soares, Lota de Macedo (lover)
Organitzacions
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)
Premis i honors
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) (mostra-les totes 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)

Membres

Ressenyes

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 | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | 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.
… (més)
 
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jonbrammer | Hi ha 23 ressenyes més | 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 | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | 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.
… (més)
½
 
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cbl_tn | Hi ha 23 ressenyes més | Apr 1, 2023 |

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Obres
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Membres
4,755
Popularitat
#5,276
Valoració
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
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Llengües
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Preferit
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