Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop

Author: Ding Liying
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Elizabeth Bishop's poetry collection North & South (1946) brought her overnight fame, and she served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950. Together with another new poetry collection A Cold Spring, it was published as Poems (1955) and won the Pulitzer Prize. The Traveler’s Question (1965) and Complete Poems (1969) firmly established her status as an outstanding poet. She received the Guggenheim Award and the National Book Award in 1970. Another poetry collection, Geography III (1976), was published in the UK. Bishop stood on the tradition of American poetry, following Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Mary Oliver, using equally reliable craftsmanship to more clearly articulate a personalized rhetorical stance compared to her peers, including Robert Lowell and William Berryman. Her poetry is rich in imagination and musicality, combining moral implications and new ideas through precise language and perfect form, expressing confidence in upholding justice and the poet’s sense of responsibility. North & South (1946) brought Elizabeth Bishop overnight fame, and she served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950. Together with another new poetry collection A Cold Spring, it was published as Poems (1955) and won the Pulitzer Prize. The Traveler’s Question (1965) and Complete Poems (1969) firmly established her status as an outstanding poet. She received the Guggenheim Award and the National Book Award in 1970. Another poetry collection, Geography III (1976), was published in the UK. Bishop stood on the tradition of American poetry, following Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Mary Oliver, using equally reliable craftsmanship to more clearly articulate a personalized rhetorical stance compared to her peers, including Robert Lowell and William Berryman. Her poetry is rich in imagination and musicality, combining moral implications and new ideas through precise language and perfect form, expressing confidence in upholding justice and the poet’s sense of responsibility.