Poems

The Centenary Edition

Elizabeth Bishop

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Chatto & Windus
15 March 2011

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Literary studies: poetry & poets

The definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets.

This is the definitive centenary edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, recognised today as a master of her art and acclaimed by poets and readers alike. Her poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived - and move inexorably toward the interior, exploring questions of knowledge and perception, love and solitude, and the ability or inability of form to control chaos.

This new edition, edited by Saskia Hamilton, includes Bishop's four published volumes (North & South, A Cold Spring, Questions of Travel and Geography III), as well as uncollected poems, translations and an illuminating selection of unpublished manuscript poems, reproduced in facsimile, revealing exactly how finished, or unfinished, Bishop left them. It offers readers the opportunity to enjoy the complete poems of one of the most distinguished American poets of the twentieth century.

By: Elizabeth Bishop
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9780701186289
ISBN 10: 0701186283
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911 and graduated from Vassar College in 1934. She travelled widely as an adult, living in Paris, Mexico, New York, Florida, and, for more than a decade, Brazil, before returning to the United States. Her work was immediately prized for its distinctive clarity, precision, and depth, and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among others. She died in Boston in 1979.

Reviews for Poems: The Centenary Edition

One of the greatest poets of the twentieth century -- William Boyd * Guardian * When we read her, we enter the classical serenity of a new country -- Robert Lowell If ever there was a poet whose every scrap of writing should be in print, that poet must be Elizabeth Bishop -- Christopher Reid