Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop ( born February 8, 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts, † October 6, 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American poet and writer of modernity.

Life

Elizabeth Bishop's father, William Thomas Bishop died before their first birthday. Her mother Gertrude Bishop, nee Bulmer, suffered several nervous breakdowns and was permanently admitted to a sanatorium when Bishop was five years old. Growing up is Elizabeth Bishop from her third to the sixth year of life. Among Canadian maternal grandparents in Great Village, Nova Scotia in a loving and happy atmosphere Then she spent her childhood against their will in her father's family in Worcester and Boston in poverty. She attended Walnut Hill School near Boston and then went for four years on the Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. With Mary McCarthy and others she wrote at this time for the literary magazine Con Spirito. 1934, when her mother died in the year Elizabeth Bishop graduated from Vassar College. In the same year she met Marianne Moore know, exerted great influence on the early work of Elizabeth Bishop.

Marianne Moore, she suggested for the Poetry Prize of the publisher Houghton Mifflin, the Elizabeth Bishop in 1946 was for North & South. For the work of North & South -A Cold Spring, she was awarded the 1956 Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for The Complete Poems the National Book Award. In 1976 she got for her last book of poems Geography III as the first and only U.S. citizen the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Bishop published the majority of her stories and poems in the New Yorker and the Partisan Review.

Bishop traveled several times through Europe, often stayed at in Florida and decided in 1951 eventually for long stays in Brazil, where she could live openly gay, so with the architect Lota de Macedo Soares, who came from a prominent Brazilian politician Family ( Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares Oliveira, Carmen, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0-813-53359-7, 2002).

Bishop was a close friend of the major poets Robert Lowell and Howard Moss. Among her pupils and admirers included John Ashbery, Mark beach, Frank Bidart. Bishop taught after their return from Brazil, and during her last decade of life at the University of Washington (Seattle ) and at Harvard University. She died in 1979 at the age of 68 in Boston, Massachusetts. Bishop is one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century.

Works

Poetry

Other works

Translations

  • Poems, trans. v. Klaus Martens. Accents 4 ( August 1986 ), 292-304.
  • The sea and its beach, trans. v. Klaus Martens. Accents 4 ( August 1986 ), 305-312.
  • The silent madness. Narratives, trans. u m. e epilogue v. Reinhard Kaiser. Frankfurt ET - Anst, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-627-10095-6. ; also Fischer -Taschenbuch - Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-596-11289-3
  • Everything sea, a moving marble. Poems, bilingual, translated and with an afterword edited by Klaus Martens. Mattes Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86809-045-1

Secondary literature

  • Klaus Martens, " The 'I' of the eye or the pleasure of Geography, " accents 4 ( August 1986 ), 313-324
  • Klaus Martens, " The Moose of It: A poem by Elizabeth Bishop in his Anglo-American traditions. " In Transatlantic Encounters. Studies in European - American relations. FS for Winfried Herget. Edited Ú.J. Lever, K. Ortseifen. Trier, WVT 1995, 279-294.

Films

2013: The poet, film directed by Bruno Barreto Miranda Otto in the title role

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