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Bishop, Elizabeth 1911-1979

Overview
Works: 604 works in 1,031 publications in 20 languages and 67,680 library holdings
Genres: Broadsides  Manuscripts, American  Women poets, American 
Roles: Compiler, Lyricist, Former owner, Performer, Editor, Other, Correspondent, Translator, Librettist
Classifications: ps3503.i785, 811.54
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21 editions published between and 2004 in English and Japanese and held by 2,376 libraries worldwide
A collection of 149 poems by the author.
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24 editions published between and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,770 libraries worldwide
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14 editions published between and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,722 libraries worldwide
A compilation of fiction and nonfiction includes both previously published and hitherto unpublished stories, such as In the Village, The Housekeeper, and Gwendolyn and nonfiction works discovered among the author's papers after her death.
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22 editions published between and 1971 in 4 languages and held by 1,649 libraries worldwide
Endowed with inestimable natural wealth, Brazil's development has been hindered by an unstable social and economic background. a report on this and the signs of change are part of a colorful account of Brazil's past, present, and future.
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6 editions published between and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,249 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published in in English and held by 1,196 libraries worldwide
[In this volume, the editors] described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure ... Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of America's great poets of the 20th century. This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes as North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, and Geography III. In addition it contains an extensive selection of un-published poems and drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanes' The Birds to versions of Brazilian sambas. Poems, Prose, and Letters brings together most of her published prose writings, including stories; reminiscences; travel writing about the places (Nova Scotia, Florida, Brazil) that so profoundly marked her poetry; and literary essays and statements, including a number of pieces published here for the first time.-http://www.booksinprint.com.
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5 editions published between and 1968 in English and held by 1,138 libraries worldwide
Nineteen poems, and the story of a Nova Scotia childhood, "In the village".
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12 editions published between and 1996 in English and held by 1,128 libraries worldwide
"This collection is a magnificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928 when she was seventeen (and already a poet) to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, her editor during her lifetime, has selected over 500 and has written a detailed and informative introduction." "In one sense, Elizabeth Bishop's letters constitute her autobiography, including the story of her love for Lota Soares in Brazil, which ended with Lota's tragic suicide fifteen years later. They also record her intense relationships with her early mentor Marianne Moore and later with Robert Lowell. For Bishop, letter-writing was a joy and a necessity, an embodiment of the links between people, but also a facet of her art, conjuring the world in words. Some letters are carefully composed, elegant in style; some are spontaneous and witty, alive with unexpected detail; some contain poems sent as gifts; others are cries from the heart. Sometimes she ponders on her childhood, on her struggle to create, or to resist drink, but more often she responds fully and vividly to the immediate moment, the color of the sky, the books she has been reading, the friend she misses, the meal she is cooking, the toucan or cat she is observing, the room she is painting in a "Harlequinade" pattern of big colored diamonds." "One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great poet."--BOOK JACKET.
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12 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 1,104 libraries worldwide
"Becoming a poet traces the evolution of Elizabeth Bishop's poetic career through her friendships with other poets, notably Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell. Published in 1989 following critic David Kalstone's death, with the help of a number of his friends and colleagues, it was greeted with uniformly enthusiastic praise. Hailed at that time as "one of the most sensitive appreciations of Elizabeth Bishop's genius ever composed" and "a first-rate piece of criticism" and "a masterpiece of understanding about friendship and about poetry," it has been largely unavailable in recent years."--BOOK JACKET.
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3 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 959 libraries worldwide
From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some eighty poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allen Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies. This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.
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3 editions published between and 1972 in English and held by 909 libraries worldwide
Works by fourteen Brazilian poets with translations by Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Ashley Brown, Jane Cooper, Richard Eberhart, Barbara Howes, June Jordan, Galway Kinnell, Jean R. Longland, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Louis Simpson, Mark Strand, Jean Valentine, Richard Wilbur, and James Wright.
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9 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 841 libraries worldwide
"The candid, affectionate, complex, and loving friendship of two American poets is recorded in letters written over three decades, collected here for the first time in their entirely."--[book cover]
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3 editions published in in English and held by 568 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 2011 in English and Spanish and held by 502 libraries worldwide
Elizabeth Bishop is one of America's greatest writers, and her art is loved and admired by readers and fellow poets alike. The poems that make up Bishop's small and select body of work display honesty and humor, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. Her poems often start outwardly, with geography and landscape--from New England and Nova Scotia, where she grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived-- and move inexorably toward "the interior," exploring as they do fundamental questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.
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4 editions published between and 2011 in English and held by 501 libraries worldwide
Traces the artistic development of the award-winning poet as reflected by her literary relationship with "The New Yorker" throughout the mid-twentieth century, drawing on hundreds of letters to her editors that discussed her inspiration and experiences.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 454 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published in in English and held by 419 libraries worldwide
When the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop "writes poems with a painter's eye," Bishop was "very flattered: I'd love to be a painter." The fact is - though not many knew it - she painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her works, demonstrates. The paintings were tracked down, identified, and collected by the poet and art writer William Benton, who arranged the first exhibit of Bishop's.
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7 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 410 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 384 libraries worldwide
A ballad, based on an actual incident, in which an escaped convict, preferring ninety hours of being pursued to ninety years in prison, is hunted down by army soldiers near the Rio de Janeiro slum where he was raised.
 
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The complete poems, 1927-1979
Alternative Names
Bishop, Elizabeth
בישופ, אליזבט, 1911-1979
בישופ, אליזבט
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