The adherent of Marianne Moore, and a good friend of poets Robert Lowell and James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop was born within Worcester, Massachusetts. When her father's demise & her mother's institutionalization, Elizabeth Bishop swallow her Canadian grandparents in Nova Scotia for a few years, & late sustaining her father's personal around Boston, Massachusetts. She attended The Walnut Hill School, and entered Vassar College in the fall of 1929, the month of the securities market crash. She graduated from either college inside 1934, having befriended writer Mary McCarthy (who was a single season her senior).

Elizabeth Bishop was awarded a Houghton Mifflwithinside poetry award in 1946 &, in 1956, a Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poetry, North & South - A Cold Spring. She late received a National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, when well as 2 Guggenheim fellowships. Inside 1976, she became a 1st woman to receive a International Neustadt Prize for Literature, and remains a single Western to become awarded that prize.[http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/neustadt/laureates.html]

Elizabeth Bishop traveled widely when you took her life-time, sleep in New York, Key West, and, for sixteen years, inside Brazil with her companion Lota de Macedo Soares. Around in the future life she returned to Boston, summering on the island of North Haven, Maine.

Bishop typically contributed articles to The New Yorker, and, around 1964, wrote a necrology for Flannery O'Connor in The New York Review of Books.

Bishop lectured around higher education for the total of years. For a short period she taught at the University of Washington, before moving to Harvard for seven years. She as well taught at New York University, before finishing at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early inside her career, Bishop was regarded (& perchance dismissed) as a "miniaturist," a master ofLittle poetic structures & descriptive detail. Careful reading of her operate, even so, reveals the sharp-edged confessional edge: her life history is told across verse form which, though nominally addressing & describing more subject matter (including paintings, holidaymaker destinations, etc.), in point of fact speak to admittedly cases (& to her, & a reader's, underlying experiential states). She was far from either prolific: her Complete Poems occurs as comparatively slenderize volume.

"Miss Bishop" — when she favorite virtually all population to location her — was notoriously shy. She did non search or even particularly enjoy literary publicity. Though extremely regarded by fellow poets (John Ashbery described her as a "poet's poet's poet"), it was simply when her demise around 1979, & particularly when a 1994 publication of Of these Art, her collected letters, that Bishop's reputation grew swell beyond a little critical fame that she enjoyed within her lifespan.

Works

Poetry:

Northwards & South (1946) Northerly & South - A Cold Spring (1955) Questions of Travel (1965) A Complete Verse form (1969) Geographics Tierce (1976) A Complete Verse form 1927-1979 (1983) [posthumous]

More works:

A Diary of Helena Morley (translation) (1957) 3 Stories by Clarice Lispector (translation) (1964) Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon (babies's book) (1968) A single Art (collected letters) (1994) [posthumous] Exchanging Hats (paintings) (1996) [posthumous]