Elizabeth Bishop

Prose (eBook, ePUB)

The Centenary Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates. From her witty, unforgettable portraits of Marianne Moore and the Sitwells to her engaging childhood recollections of Canada and Massachusetts, her writing reflects a lifelong fascination with memory and travel, and her unique eye and ear for people and places.

This new volume - edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Lloyd Schwartz - includes virtually all her published shorter prose pieces and a number of prose works not published until after her death. Included here are her stories, crucial memoirs, literary and travel essays, book reviews, and - for the first time - the original draft of Brazil, the Life World Library volume she repudiated in its published version, as well as extensive selections from the correspondence between Bishop and the poet Anne Stevenson. Here is a rich and revealing selection, and the indispensible companion to the poems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446467220
• Artikelnr.: 41859360

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911 and graduated from Vassar College in 1934. She travelled widely as an adult, living in Paris, Mexico, New York, Florida, and, for more than a decade, Brazil, before returning to the United States. Her work was immediately prized for its distinctive clarity, precision, and depth, and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among others. Over time she has come to be acknowledged as one of America's greatest poets. She died in Boston in 1979.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Note
STORIES AND MEMOIRS
The Baptism
The Sea and Its Shore
In Prison
Gregorio Valdes, 1879-1939
Mercedes Hospital
The Farmer's Children
The Housekeeper
Gwendolyn
In the Village
Primer Class
The Country Mouse
The U.S.A. School of Writing
A Trip to Vigia
Efforts of Affection: A Memoir of Marianne Moore
To the Botequim & Back
Memories of Uncle Neddy
Brazil
ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND TRIBUTES
As We Like It: Miss Moore and the Delight of Imitation
Review of Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
Review of XAIPE: 71 Poems by E. E. Cummings
Love from Emily
Review of The Riddle of Emily Dickinson
What the Young Man Said to the Psalmist
The Manipulation of Mirrors
Introduction to The Diary of "Helena Morley"
A New Capital, Aldous Huxley, and Some Indians
"I Was But Just Awake"
Robert Lowell's Life Studies
"Writing poetry is an unnatural act..."
Some Notes on Robert Lowell
A Sentimental Tribute
Flannery O'Connor: 1925-1964
On the Railroad Named Delight
Gallery Note for Wesley Wehr
An Inadequate Tribute
Introduction to An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry
A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute
TRANSLATIONS
From The Diary of "Helena Morley"
Stories by Clarice Lispector The Smallest Woman in the World
A Hen
Marmosets
Correspondence with Anne Stevenson, 1963-1965
APPENDIX: EARLY PROSE
On Being Alone
A Mouse and Mice
The Thumb
Then Came the Poor
From "Time's Andromedas"
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Timing in His Poetry
The Last Animal
Dimensions for a Novel
Notes on the Texts
Index