Twentieth Century World Poetry Translation Series - Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop

Author: Ding Liying
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Elizabeth Bishop's poetry collection North & South (1946) brought her instant 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, they were combined into Poetry (1955), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Her poetry collections The Traveler’s Problem (1965) and Complete Poems (1969) firmly established her status as a distinguished 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 firmly within the tradition of American poetry, following Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Mary Oliver. With equally reliable craftsmanship, she expressed a more clearly defined personal rhetorical stance than her contemporaries, including Robert Lowell and William Berryman. Her poems are rich in imagination and musicality, combining moral implications and new ideas through precise language and perfect form, expressing confidence in justice and the poet’s sense of responsibility.