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  1. Mar 19, 2024 · In high school and college, her friends called her “Bishop” and “the Bishop,” and, when Marianne Moore proposed that they switch to their given names, Bishop was relieved to finally have someone calling her Elizabeth.

  2. Nov 12, 2023 · Elizabeth Bishop’s animal fabliaux, "The Hanging of the Mouse," was written in response to the excerpt above taken from her autobiography (Barnet, Burto, Cain, pg. 1313). Bishop uses a range of literary techniques in this short story, such as anaphora, catastrophe, and catharsis.

  3. Sep 11, 2024 · North & South, collection of poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, published in 1955. The book, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1956, was a revision of an earlier collection, North & South (1946), to which 17 poems were added.

  4. Nov 11, 2023 · In-depth analysis of Elizabeth Bishop's timeless 'Sestina', a complex unrhymed poem about a grandmother and a child in the kitchen of a house. It is a repetitive, magical and mysterious poem.

  5. Aug 15, 2024 · Elizabeth Bishop, on the other hand, is the one un-Romantic American poet of her generation, whose expressive and exclusive imaginative powers refer least to that script handed to the poet by...

  6. Mar 28, 2024 · “Elizabeth Bishop” explores the close and lifelong personal and artistic relationship that sustained Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop from their first meeting in 1947 until Lowell’s death in 1977.

  7. Sep 23, 2024 · In many of her poetic works, Elizabeth Bishop evokes the liminal boundary between land and sea as a site of transience, sublimity, and mystery, representing a borderline between what lies within and outside of the realm of human understanding. In Bishop’s poem “At the Fishhouses,” the borderline between land and sea—which is ...

  8. Jul 24, 2024 · Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979) was an American poet and writer. Bishop won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (1970) and the National Book Award (1970).

  9. Oct 20, 2023 · Elizabeth Bishop's Filling Station, first published in her book Questions of Travel in 1965, has her typical shorter lines, all part of her poetic attempts to secure the tiniest details of observed life.

  10. Feb 7, 2024 · Elizabeth Bishop is a poet of details and absences. She explores the world around her, always looking for truth even in the most ordinary observation, with poems that are both controlled and expansive.