Elizabeth Bishop
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican poet (1911-1979)
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.
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Bishop (bottom center) in 1934 with other members of Vassar's yearbook, the Vassarion, of which she was editor-in-chief
Elementary school in Great Village, Nova Scotia, where Bishop first attended school
Elizabeth Bishop House, Key West, Florida
1312 & 1314 30th Street NW, (built 1868)
Bishop in Brazil in 1964
Elizabeth Bishop HouseAwards 8
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Robert LowellAlso won National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Gwendolyn BrooksAlso won Shelley Memorial Award
Rita DoveAlso won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Giuseppe UngarettiAlso won Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Lynn FontanneAlso won honorary doctor of Brandeis University
Nuruddin FarahAlso won Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAbout this person
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." She was also a painter, and her poetry is noted for its careful attention to detail; Ernest Hilbert wrote “Bishop’s poetics is one distinguished by tranquil observation, craft-like accuracy, care for the small things of the world, a miniaturist’s discretion and attention."
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