John Peale Bishop

John Peale Bishop ( born May 21, 1892 in Charles Town, West Virginia, † April 4, 1944 in Hyannis, Massachusetts ) was an American novelist and poet.

Biography

Bishop made ​​his literary debut in 1917 with the poetry collection Green Fruit. It was after the end of the First World War, in which he has served in Europe, without combat, like his fellow student at Princeton Edmund Wilson managing editor of the magazine Vanity Fair. Bishop Wilson and produced in 1922 The Undertaker 's Garland, a collection of prose and poetry. In 1922, Bishop married the wealthy Margaret Hutchins and they traveled two years through Italy, Austria and France. He learned the painting and sculpture of the School of Paris and know the well-known authors of the lost generation, Ezra Pound, EE Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Ernest Hemingway. The return to New York was disappointing, his work has appeared in more magazines, but a novel manuscript was not published. The Bishops went back to Europe in 1926, where, after a short stay in Paris, an old house in Orgeval, north of Paris, purchased and lived there until 1933.

In 1931 he published Many Thousands Gone, a collection of related short stories, the novel Act of Darkness appeared 1935. Both books deal with the problem of the Southern tradition. To Bishops later volumes of poetry belonged Now with His Love (1933 ), as well as minute Particulars (1936 ), which was dedicated to the metaphysical poetry of the 17th century. His elegy The Hours to his old friend F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered a masterpiece. 1943 Bishop was appointed consultant for Comparative Literature at the Library of Congress.

Appeared posthumously in 1948 a collection of his poems entitled Collected Poems.