“For Elizabeth Bishop, writing poetry had less to do with self-expression than it did with probing the complex and often discomforting nature of self as it is shaped through interaction with the world.”
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Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Dwight Garner argued in 2018 that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century.…
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culture · American poet and short-story writer (1911–1979) · poet · writer · translator · university teacher · essayist · librettist · also Elizabeth Bishop, Elisabeth Bishop, Bishop
Born 8 February 1911 · Died 6 October 1979 · Q235946
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2026· 4 entries
OSV News: Bishop: Rupnik mosaics at Lourdes to be covered before pope’s visit and remain masked indefinitely
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KCRA: Stockton faith and community leader Bishop Dwight Earl Williams dies at age 60
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The Sacramento Observer: Bishop Dwight Williams, Stockton Faith And Community Leader, Dies At 60
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2018· 1 entry
That she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: A tale of two poets, Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop
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2013· 2 entries
The Guardian: Letter: David Jacobs and Elizabeth Bishop's art of losing
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The Guardian: Guardian Books poetry podcast: Imtiaz Dharker reads Elizabeth Bishop, Louis MacNeice and Arun Kolatkar
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: Elizabeth Bishop: Exchanging Hats – in pictures
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1997· 1 entry
On the occasion of the Elizabeth Bishop Conference and Poetry Festival in Worcester
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1979· 1 entry
Died 1979-10-06.
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1976· 3 entries
Awarded Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1976).
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Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for Geography III (1976).
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Addressed the chase for identity and individuality within a diverse society as a seven-year-old girl living in Worcester, Massachusetts, during World War I
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1971· 1 entry
Bishop began a relationship with Alice Methfessel, who became her literary executor
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award (1970).
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1967· 1 entry
Bishop spent more time in the United States
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1965· 1 entry
Describes her first encounter with death when her cousin Arthur died
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1964).
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1956· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1956).
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In The New Yorker, depicts a real-life experience
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The National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976
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1955· 1 entry
Included her first book, plus the 18 new poems that constituted the new "Cold Spring" section
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Shelley Memorial Award (1953).
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1951· 1 entry
Bishop set off to circumnavigate South America
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1947).
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And they became great friends, mostly through their written correspondence, until Lowell's death in 1977
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1946· 1 entry
And won the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry
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1938· 1 entry
The two of them purchased a house at 624 White Street in Key West, Florida
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1934· 1 entry
Studied at Vassar College (1929–1934).
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1933· 1 entry
Co-founded Con Spirito, a rebel literary magazine at Vassar, with writer Mary McCarthy, Margaret Miller, and the sisters Eunice and Eleanor Clark
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1924· 1 entry
Bishop encountered English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins upon reading his work in Harriet Monroe’s Anthology of Modern Poets
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1918· 1 entry
Her paternal grandparents, realizing that Bishop was unhappy living with them, sent her to live with her mother's eldest sister, Maude Bulmer Shepherdson, and her husband, George
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-02-08.
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