Bishop, Elizabeth (Vol. 9) - Bishop, Elizabeth 1911–
Bishop, Elizabeth 1911–
Bishop is an American poet and prose writer currently residing in Brazil. She is generally regarded as a poet who has created a small but significant body of very individual lyric verse. Her poetic world is the real world, which she draws with meticulous detail, then often unexpectedly laces with the fantastic and the surreal. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and the National Book Award. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 4, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Bishop has created a significant poetry out of the manipulation of "precious objects," and just as one might say that she in her return [to her origins, to childhood or a primitive equivalent] is not so individualistic as Robinson, Frost, or Stevens, and hence different from that generation, one may add that she is never so mystical as Roethke or so involved with gaining reader understanding as are the "confessional poets." Regardless of...
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