21. Elizabeth Bishop blacktitle.jpg (12329 bytes). elizabeth bishop (19111979). About elizabeth bishop The bishop / Moore Correspondence on The Fish http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/bishop.htm

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) About Elizabeth Bishop The Bishop / Moore Correspondence on "The Fish" On "The Fish" On "The Man-Moth" ... External Links Prepared and Compiled by Robert Dale Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Edward Brunner, Southern Illinois University, and Cary Nelson Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

22. About Elizabeth Bishop About elizabeth bishop. George S. Lensing. Copyright © 1995 by Oxford University Press. Anne Agnes Colwell. bishop, elizabeth (8 Feb. 19116 Oct. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/about.htm

About Elizabeth Bishop George S. Lensing E Trial Balances in 1935. In residence in New York for a year, she wrote her first mature poems, including "The Map" and "The Man-Moth." She then lived intermittently in Europe for three years before purchasing a house in Key West, Florida, in 1938. After being rejected by several New York publishers, the first of her four volumes of poetry, North and South, was finally published in 1946. The next year she was introduced by Randall Jarrell to Robert Lowell, who became a lifelong friend. In 1951, the geographical displacement in her life continued when she took ill on a trip to South America; left behind by a freighter in Brazil, she made that country her home for the next eighteen years. Her lesbian relationship with Lota de Macedo Soares gave her life stability and love, and she established residences in Rio de Janeiro, nearby Petrópolis, and, later, Ouro Prêto. A Cold Spring, her second volume of poetry, appeared in 1955. Brazil became the setting for many of the poems that were collected a decade later in Questions of Travel After the suicide of Lota de Macedo Soares, Bishop increasingly began to live in the United States, and became poet-in-residence at Harvard University in 1969. A close friendship with Alice Methfessel began in 1971 and continued until the time of Bishop's death in 1979. Her final poetry volume

23. American Literature Web Resources: Elizabeth Bishop American Literature Web Resources elizabeth bishop. elizabeth bishop (19111979) Created by Julie Rocke, Millikin University. Chronology. February 8, 1911elizabeth bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on. http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/bishopbio.html

American Literature Web Resources: Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Created by Julie Rocke, Millikin University Chronology February 8, 1911 Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on. She was the only child of William T. Bishop and Gertrude May (Boomer) Bishop, both of Canadian ancestry. October 13, 1911 Her father, a vice president in his father's Boston-based construction company, died from kidney disease on, when Bishop was only eight months old. Bishop's mother subsequently suffered a number of breakdowns mother was permanently institutionalized May 1934 -mother died in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Bishop, who was only five years old at the time was then taken by her maternal grandparents to their home in a very Nova Scotia town called Great Village. Out of her experiences there came the short story "In the Village" and the very fine poem "First Death in Nova Scotia." September 1917 her father's parents took her from her largely happy life in Great Village to live with them in their mansion in Worcester, though she would return to Nova Scotia for two months each summer. While living in Worcester, she experienced many ailments. From her experiences there would come the superb late poem "In the Waiting Room." May 1918 Recognizing her unhappiness, in her paternal grandparents allowed her to live with her aunt, Maud Shepherdson, and her husband, George. This, the fourth household in which Elizabeth had lived by the age of eight, proved to be a stable and happy one, and she later credited her aunt with having saved her life.

24. Soundings - 2000.03.29 Audio files of four prominent poets reading bishop's last poem, also with a discussion of the writer and her work. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/soundings/bishop.htm

Introduction by Lloyd Schwartz March 29, 2000 Elizabeth Bishop E lizabeth Bishop's "Sonnet" is often taken to be her last poem. It was published in The New Yorker on October 29, 1979, three weeks after she died. And it feels like a posthumous poem, with its images of release from illness, from emotional conflict, from being "a creature divided." In fact Bishop had written it more than a year earlier, then with surprising speed finished another poem, "Pink Dog" a bitterly ironic, grotesquely comic "samba" set in Rio at Carnival time, in which she advises a "poor bitch," a hairless scavenger with scabies (her chilling mirror image, another creature out of place among the Cariocan revelers), to "Dress up! Dress up and dance at Carnival!" The New Yorker rushed this mardi-gras poem into the February 26 issue, while "Sonnet," acquired months before, would have to wait another eight months to see the light of day. Click on the names below to hear these poets read Elizabeth Bishop's "Sonnet" (in RealAudio (For help, see

25. Online Course Companion: An Introduction To Poetry Online Biography, critical archive, bibliography and links. http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/long_kennedy_poetry_10/chapt

26. BBC - Books - Author Profile For Elizabeth Bishop BBC profile and photograph of the American poet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/bishop/

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index SATURDAY 29th May 2004 Text only BBC Homepage Arts Books ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! surnames.. A to B C to E F to I J to L M to O P to R S to T U to Z Elizabeth Bishop Born: Worcester, Massachusetts, 1911 Died: 1979 Page 1 Important works: North and South (1946) was Elizabeth Bishop's first collection of verse. She published a reprint of North and South with additions entitled Cold Spring (1955), which won the Pulitzer prize in 1956. She also wrote travel books including Brazil (1967). Her posthumous publications, Complete Poems (1983) and Collected Poems (1984), increased her fame and critical reputation. Page 1 Anna Akhmatova Margaret Atwood Robert Lowell Anne Michaels ... Sylvia Plath Listen to writers talk about their work in BBC Four's Audio Interviews Elizabeth Bishop is just one of many poets to be featured on Radio 4's Poetry Please Discuss your favourite books and authors on the message board

27. Elizabeth Bishop - The Academy Of American Poets elizabeth bishop The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. http://www.poets.org/awards/ebish

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was born in 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts. When she was very young her father died, her mother was committed to a mental asylum, and she was sent to live with her grandparents in Nova Scotia. She earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1934. She was independently wealthy, and from 1935 to 1937 she spent time traveling to France, Spain, North Africa, Ireland, and Italy and then settled in Key West, Florida, for four years. Her poetry is filled with descriptions of her travels and the scenery which surrounded her, as with the Florida poems in her first book of verse, North and South , published in 1946. She was influenced by the poet Marianne Moore , who was a close friend, mentor, and stabilizing force in her life. Unlike her contemporary and good friend Robert Lowell , who wrote in the "confessional" style, Bishop's poetry avoids explicit accounts of her personal life, and focuses instead with great subtlety on her impressions of the physical world. Her images are precise and true to life, and they reflect her own sharp wit and moral sense. She lived for many years in Brazil, communicating with friends and colleagues in America only by letter. She wrote slowly and published sparingly (her Collected Poems number barely a hundred), but the technical brilliance and formal variety of her work is astonishing. Considered for years a "poet's poet," her last book

28. Elizabeth Bishop - The Academy Of American Poets elizabeth bishop One Art. The Academy of American Poets presents Add to a Notebook. One Art elizabeth bishop. The art of losing isn t http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=972

29. Elizabeth Bishop - The Academy Of American Poets Biography, photograph, selected poems, and links. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C01

30. Elizabeth Bishop - The Academy Of American Poets elizabeth bishop The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. Some pages also include RealAudio clips of the http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=7

31. Costello Discussion of Auden's early poetry and its influence on elizabeth bishop. http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/Costello.html

Bonnie Costello Boston University Auden and Bishop When Ashley Brown asked Bishop about Auden's influence she remarked: "I bought all his books as they came out and read them a great deal. But he didn't affect my poetic practice." She turned the discussion to Wallace Stevens. But when George Starbuck asked her about other women poets, she dodged the question and brought up Auden. Bishop would not be the first poet to evade close scrutiny of her sources. Her enthusiasm for Auden's work, at least, seems never to have ebbed. I believe that his influence was as profound, in opposite ways, perhaps, as that of Stevens', or Moore's, though it has received far less comment. Today I have time only to bring evidence of the influence, not to analyze it fully. (I'll be quoting Auden, but only alluding to Bishop, on the assumption that you know her work by heart, and that you are less familiar with his.) In 1937 Bishop writes to Marianne Moore that she is working on a review ("my first!") about Auden's Look Stranger, which she calls "The Mechanics of Pretense." Bret Millier's biography claims the piece is lost, but Tom Travisano has helped me locate the fragment (the piece is unfinished) in the Vassar library. Thirty seven years later, In 1974, Bishop wrote "A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute" on Auden for the Harvard Advocate. The Advocate piece resembles the review fragment in that she yields, after a few critical remarks, to ample quotation. Bishop seems to have had difficulty analyzing Auden's appeal. After a page and a half of quotations Bishop concludes the Advocate piece by remarking: "These verses and many, many more of Auden's, have been part of my mind for yearsI could say, part of my life." (Does she say it?)

32. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Bishop The first superior in England in episcopal orders since the old hierarchy died out in the reign of elizabeth, born c. 1553 at Brailes in Warwickshire, where his family continued to reside until recent times; d. 16 April, 1624. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02589a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... B > William Bishop A B C D ... Z William Bishop The first superior in England in episcopal orders since the old hierarchy died out in the reign of Elizabeth, born c. 1553 at Brailes in Warwickshire, where his family continued to reside until recent times; d. 16 April, 1624. He went to Gloucester Hall, Oxford, in 1570; but retired abroad four years later, and joined Allen at the English College, Douai . >From thence he went to Rome, and after completing his studies and being ordained priest, we find him once more in England, where he was called upon to endure many and great hardships. On at least two occasions, he was apprehended, imprisoned for some years, and then banished. It was during one of these periods of banishment that he went to Paris and took the degree of Doctor of Divinity at the Sorbonne. Dr. Bishop took a leading part in the unfortunate disputes between seculars and regulars at that time. The latter party, by means of their influence at Rome, had secured the appointment of an "archpriest" as superior of the English mission. The secular clergy resented this, calling out for the restoration of episcopal government in some form. They became known as "the Appellants", and were favoured by Elizabeth, who contrived to assist them secretly to prosecute their appeals. In 1598 Bishop himself went to Rome, with another priest, to lay their case before the Holy See . On their arrival, however, they found the

33. Elizabeth Bishop At Vassar College bishop, elizabeth In the Waiting Room bishop, elizabeth In the Waiting Room. Commentary, This long poem is one of elizabeth bishop s finest evocations of the magic in ordinary life. http://projects.vassar.edu/bishop/

Bibliography Library Collections Elizabeth Bishop Societies Announcements and Calls for Papers ... Selected Papers from Symposium, Vassar College 1994 Related Links Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911, but spent part of her childhood with her Canadian grandparents after her father's death and her mother's permanent hospitalization in a Nova Scotian sanitarium. She attended two different boarding schools, the North Shore Country Day School in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, where she contributed to the school newspapers, The Owl and Blue Pencil, respectively. Bishop graduated from Vassar College in 1934. In addition to working on the student newspaper, The Vassar Miscellany, she founded a literary magazine, Con Spirito, with fellow students Mary McCarthy, Eleanor Clark, and Muriel Rukeyser. It was as a Vassar student that Elizabeth Bishop met Marianne Moore . They first met in 1934 when Fanny Borden, the Vassar librarian, arranged an introduction, and their friendship continued until Moore's death in 1972. Elizabeth Bishop traveled extensively in Europe and lived in New York, Key West, Florida, and, for sixteen years, in Brazil. She taught briefly at the University of Washington, at Harvard for seven years, at New York University, and just prior to her death in 1979, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

34. 'Sestina' :: A Poem By Elizabeth Bishop :: PoetryConnection.net By elizabeth bishop. http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Elizabeth_Bishop/2957

Poem of the Day Top 30 Poets American Poems ... Search Today, on May 29th, 2004, the site contains 41 poets and 2322 poems. Elizabeth Bishop - Sestina September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child beside the Little Marvel Stove, reading the jokes from the almanac, laughing and talking to hide her tears. She thinks that her equinoctial tears and the rain that beats on the roof of the house were both foretold by the almanac, but only known to a grandmother. The iron kettle sings on the stove. She cuts some bread and says to the child, It's time for tea now ; but the child is watching the teakettle's small hard tears dance like mad on the hot black stove, the way the rain must dance on the house. Tidying up, the old grandmother hangs up the clever almanac on its string. Birdlike, the almanac hovers half open above the child, hovers above the old grandmother and her teacup full of dark brown tears. She shivers and says she thinks the house feels chilly, and puts more wood in the stove. It was to be , says the Marvel Stove.

35. Bishop, Elizabeth bishop, elizabeth. bishop, elizabeth 191179, American poet, b Oliveira, Rare and Commonplace Flowers The Story of elizabeth bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares http://www.factmonster.com/ce5/CE006154.html

Encyclopedia Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth, North and South (1946), was reprinted with additions as (1955; Pulitzer Prize). Her poetic vision is penetrating and detached. Without straining for novelty, she finds symbolic significance in objects and events quietly observed. Among her other works are her Complete Poems The Collected Prose Geography III (1985), and several travel books, notably Questions of Travel (1965) and Brazil (1967). With Emanuel Brasil she edited An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) and she also translated the works of several Brazilian poets. Bibliography See One Art: Letters, selected correspondence ed. by R. Giroux (1994); biographies by A. Stevenson (1966), B. C. Millier (1993), and G. Fountain and P. Brazeau (1994); C. L. Oliveira, Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares (2002); studies by R. D. Parker (1988), T. J. Tavisano (1988), B. Costello (1991), L. Goldensohn (1992), C. Doreski (1993), S. McCabe (1994), M. M. Lombardi (1995), A. Colwell (1997), A. Stevenson (1998), and X. Zhou (1999). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

36. Bishop, Elizabeth Visits To St. Elizabeth S Literature Annotations. bishop, elizabeth Visits to St. elizabeth s. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/bishop11784-d

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Bishop, Elizabeth Visits to St. Elizabeth's On-Line Text Genre Poem Keywords Aging Dementia Hospitalization Individuality ... War and Medicine Summary "This is the house of Bedlam." So begins the strong poem by Elizabeth Bishop, the woman who wrote of that wretched old man who lived in the house of Bedlam. "This is the man / that lies in the house of Bedlam." So go the two lines of the following stanza of the 1950 poem about the cranky old man who was kept for his crimes in the house of Bedlam. "This is the time / of the tragic man" begins the three lines of the following stanza of the nursery rhyme poem by the consummate poet who wrote of "the Jew in a newspaper hat / that dances joyfully down the ward" and the brilliantly cruel and crazy man who lived in the house of Bedlam. "This is the soldier home from the war. These are the years and the walls and the door." So starts the 12th and last stanza of the metrical rhyming repetitive poem by one of the finest American poets about Ezra Pound, an American poet, who found himself at the end of the war "walking the plank of a coffin board" and because of his treason becoming the manthe tragic, talkative, wretched and tedious manwho lived in the house of Bedlam. [79 lines]

37. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Reorganization Of The English Hierarchy On 29 September, 1850, by the Bull Universalis Ecclesiae , Pius IX restored the Catholic hierarchy in England which had become extinct with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of elizabeth. Westminster became the metropolitan see and its occupant the lawful successor of the Catholic archbishops of Canterbury. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16037d.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... E > Reorganization of the English Hierarchy A B C D ... Z Reorganization of the English Hierarchy On 29 September, 1850, by the Bull "Universalis Ecclesiae", Pius IX restored the Catholic hierarchy in England which had become extinct with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth. Westminster became the metropolitan see and its occupant the lawful successor of the Catholic archbishops of Canterbury. The suffragan sees were Southwark, Hexham (changed to Hexham and Newcastle in 1861), Beverley, Liverpool, Salford, Shrewsbury, Newport and Menevia, Clifton, Plymouth, Nottingham, Birmingham, and Northampton. In 1878 Beverley was divided into the two new Dioceses of Leeds and Middlesborough. And in 1895 Wales, except Glamorganshire, was separated into the Dioceses of Newport and Menevia, and of Shrewsbury, and formed into the Vicariate of Wales. The vicariate was erected into the Diocese of Menevia in 1898. The Diocese of Portsmouth was formed in 1882, by the division of the Diocese of Southwark into the Dioceses of Southwark and Portsmouth. Thus, the province of Westmister having fifteen suffragan sees was numerically the largest in the world. By letters Apostolic, "Si qua est", of 28 October, 1911, Pius X erected the new provinces of Birmingham and Liverpool. With Westminster remained the suffragan Sees of Northampton, Nottingham, Portsmouth, and Southwark; to Birmingham were assigned those of Clifton, Newport, Plymouth, Shrewsbury, and Menevia; and to Liverpool, Hexham and Newcastle, Leeds, Middlesborough, and Salford.

38. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: Ame An Outline of American Literature. by Kathryn VanSpanckeren. American Poetry Since 1945 Authors elizabeth bishop (19111979). *** Index***. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/bishop.htm

FRtR Outlines American Literature American Poetry Since 1945 ... Authors Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren American Poetry Since 1945: Authors: Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Index Among women poets of the idiosyncratic group, Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich have garnered the most respect in recent years. Bishop's crystalline intelligence and interest in remote landscapes and metaphors of travel appeal to readers for their exactitude and subtlety. Like her mentor Marianne Moore , Bishop, who never married, wrote highly crafted poems in a cool, descriptive style that contains hidden philosophical depths. The description of the ice-cold North Atlantic in "At the Fishhouses" could apply to Bishop's own poetry: "It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: / dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free." With Moore, Bishop may be placed in a "cool" female poetic tradition harking back to Emily Dickinson, in comparison with the "hot" poems of Plath Sexton , and Adrienne Rich. Index

39. Bishop, Elizabeth bishop, elizabeth. bishop, elizabeth, 1911–79, American poet, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Related content from HighBeam Research on elizabeth bishop. http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE006154.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth, North and South (1946), was reprinted with additions as (1955; Pulitzer Prize). Her poetic vision is penetrating and detached. Without straining for novelty, she finds symbolic significance in objects and events quietly observed. Among her other works are her Complete Poems The Collected Prose Geography III (1985), and several travel books, notably Questions of Travel (1965) and Brazil (1967). With Emanuel Brasil she edited An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) and she also translated the works of several Brazilian poets. Bibliography See One Art: Letters, selected correspondence ed. by R. Giroux (1994); biographies by A. Stevenson (1966), B. C. Millier (1993), and G. Fountain and P. Brazeau (1994); C. L. Oliveira, Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares (2002); studies by R. D. Parker (1988), T. J. Tavisano (1988), B. Costello (1991), L. Goldensohn (1992), C. Doreski (1993), S. McCabe (1994), M. M. Lombardi (1995), A. Colwell (1997), A. Stevenson (1998), and X. Zhou (1999).

40. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Strategies for teaching bishop's work in the classroom. http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bishop.html

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Contributing Editor: C. K. Doreski Classroom Issues and Strategies Bishop's poems are highly accessible and do not present problems for most mature readers. I have found that more students come to hear the poetry of Bishop when they commit some of her work to memory. I often challenge students to find the poetry first and then discuss the theme. This encourages them to begin to find relationships among form, language, and topic. Significant Form, Style, or Artistic Conventions Bishop's voice communicates rather directly to beginning readers of poetry. What is difficult to convey is the depth of expression and learning evidenced in these poems. Her work shows not merely experience but wisdom, the ability to reflect upon one's life, and that makes some poems difficult for younger readers. For younger women readers, Bishop often seems old-fashioned, fussy, or detached. This perplexed the poet in that she felt that she had lived her life as an independent woman. This "generation gap" often provides an interesting class opportunity to talk about historical, cultural, and class assumptions in literatureand how those issues affect us as readers. Students are often quite taken by Bishop's regard for animals. With the spirit of a Darwinian naturalist, the poet is willing to accord the natural world intrinsic rights and purposes. The dream-fusion world of the Man-Moth provides many students with an opportunity to discover this avenue into Bishop's world.

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