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- catalog abstract ""This collection is a magnificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928 when she was seventeen (and already a poet) to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, her editor during her lifetime, has selected over 500 and has written a detailed and informative introduction." "In one sense, Elizabeth Bishop's letters constitute her autobiography, including the story of her love for Lota Soares in Brazil, which ended with Lota's tragic suicide fifteen years later. They also record her intense relationships with her early mentor Marianne Moore and later with Robert Lowell. For Bishop, letter-writing was a joy and a necessity, an embodiment of the links between people, but also a facet of her art, conjuring the world in words. Some letters are carefully composed, elegant in style; some are spontaneous and witty, alive with unexpected detail; some contain poems sent as gifts; others are cries from the heart. Sometimes she ponders on her childhood, on her struggle to create, or to resist drink, but more often she responds fully and vividly to the immediate moment, the color of the sky, the books she has been reading, the friend she misses, the meal she is cooking, the toucan or cat she is observing, the room she is painting in a "Harlequinade" pattern of big colored diamonds." "One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great poet."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Correspondence".
- catalog contributor b5965491.
- catalog contributor b5965492.
- catalog contributor b5965493.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""This collection is a magnificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928 when she was seventeen (and already a poet) to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux, her editor during her lifetime, has selected over 500 and has written a detailed and informative introduction." "In one sense, Elizabeth Bishop's letters constitute her autobiography, including the story of her love for Lota Soares in Brazil, which ended with Lota's tragic suicide fifteen years later. They also record her intense relationships with her early mentor Marianne Moore and later with Robert Lowell. For Bishop, letter-writing was a joy and a necessity, an embodiment of the links between people, but also a facet of her art, conjuring the world in words. Some letters are carefully composed, elegant in style; some are spontaneous and witty, alive with unexpected detail; some contain poems sent as gifts; others are cries from the heart. Sometimes she ponders on her childhood, on her struggle to create, or to resist drink, but more often she responds fully and vividly to the immediate moment, the color of the sky, the books she has been reading, the friend she misses, the meal she is cooking, the toucan or cat she is observing, the room she is painting in a "Harlequinade" pattern of big colored diamonds." "One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great poet."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. 1928-1936: School, Vassar, New York, Europe -- 2. 1937-1945: Key West, Europe, New York -- 3. 1946-1951: North & South, Maine, Haiti, Yaddo, Washington -- 4. 1952-1967: Brazil, "A Cold Spring", Seattle, "Questions of Travel;", New York -- 5. 1968-1979: San Francisco, Ouro Preto, Cambridge, "Geography III", North Haven, Lewis Wharf.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 668 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0374226407 :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux,".
- catalog subject "811/.54 B 20".
- catalog subject "Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "PS3503.I785 Z48 1994".
- catalog subject "Poets, American 20th century Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 1928-1936: School, Vassar, New York, Europe -- 2. 1937-1945: Key West, Europe, New York -- 3. 1946-1951: North & South, Maine, Haiti, Yaddo, Washington -- 4. 1952-1967: Brazil, "A Cold Spring", Seattle, "Questions of Travel;", New York -- 5. 1968-1979: San Francisco, Ouro Preto, Cambridge, "Geography III", North Haven, Lewis Wharf.".
- catalog title "Correspondence".
- catalog title "One art : letters / Elizabeth Bishop ; selected and edited by Robert Giroux.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".