Bishop, Elizabeth (Vol. 4) - Bishop, Elizabeth 1911–
Bishop, Elizabeth 1911–
Elizabeth Bishop, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, has lived in Brazil since 1952. She writes witty, fanciful, and imaginative poems. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Elizabeth Bishop's Poems seems to me one of the best books an American poet has written, one that the future will read almost as it will read Stevens and Moore and Ransom. Her poems are quiet, truthful, sad, funny, most marvelously individual poems; they have a sound, a feel, a whole moral and physical atmosphere, different from anything else I know. They are honest, modest, minutely observant, masterly; even their most complicated or troubled or imaginative effects seem, always, personal and natural, and as unmistakable as the first few notes of a Mahler song, the first few patches of a Vuillard interior….
The poet and the poems have their limitations; all exist on a small scale, and some of the later poems,...
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