Bishop, Elizabeth
Bishop, Elizabeth ( 1911 – 79 ),American poet, born in Massachusetts, and brought up by her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia after the death of her father and collapse of her mother. She was educated at Vassar, where in 1934 she met Marianne Moore , with whose work her own has much affinity. She later travelled widely, finally settling in Brazil; the titles of some of her volumes (North and South, 1946 ; Questions of Travel, 1965 ; Geography III, 1976 ) reflect her preoccupation with place and movement, and her verse is reticent, objective, spare yet colloquial. Her Complete Poems 1927–1979 appeared in 1983 . Robert Giroux edited her Collected Prose ( 1984 ) and One Art: The Selected Letters ( 1994 ).
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