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Elizabeth Bishop, born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911, had a difficult childhood: her father died when she was very young, and while still in early childhood her mother was permanently hospitalized in a sanitarium. She spent her childhood years living with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, and with relatives in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Bishop attended Vassar College, and afterwards travelled a great deal, living at different times in New York, Key West, Brazil and Boston. She was for many years the Poetry Editor of The Nation magazine.<\/p>\n
Bishop was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress [the equivalent to what is now called the Poet Laureate] in 1949-50. In 1955, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poems: North & South — A Cold Spring. Her book of poems, Questions of Travel, won the National Book Award in 1965. A later book, Geography III, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976.<\/p>\n
Bishop taught poetry at Harvard and New York University.<\/p>\n
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She died on October 6, 1979.<\/p>\n
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Elizabeth Bishop’s poems can be read in\u00a0The Complete Poems<\/em>, 1927-1979. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: Noonday.<\/p>\n For a MP3 Audio presentation of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry by Huck Gutman, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, click on the image below. In the presentation you will hear a discussion of three of Bishop’s poems, all available in the volume listed above.<\/p>\n
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