Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180) (Library of America)

James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s poems as â€œmore wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetimeâ€ and called her â€œour greatest national treasure.â€ Robert Lowell said, â€œI enjoy her poems more than anybody elseâ€™s.â€ Long before a wider public was aware of Bishopâ€™s work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of Americaâ€™s great poets of the twentieth century.

This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling originality, at once passionate and reticent, adventurous and perfectionist. It presents all the poetry that Elizabeth Bishop published in her lifetime, in such classic volumes asÂ North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel, andÂ Geography III. In addition it contains an extensive selection of unpublished poems and drafts of poems (several not previously collected), as well as all her published poetic translations, ranging from a chorus from Aristophanesâ€™Â The BirdsÂ to versions of Brazilian sambas.

Poems, Prose, and LettersÂ also brings together most of her published prose writings, including stories; reminiscences; travel writing about the places (Nova Scotia, Florida, Brazil) that so profoundly marked her poetry; and literary essays and statements, including a number of pieces published here for the first time. The book is rounded out with a selection of Bishopâ€™s irresistibly engaging and self-revelatory letters. Of the fifty-three letters included here, written between 1933 and 1979, a considerable number are printed for the first time, and all are presented in their entirety. Their recipients include Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Anne Stevenson, May Swenson, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781598530179
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2008-02-14
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EANs 9781598530179

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781598530179
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2008-02-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598530179

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180) (Library of America)