Charlotte’s Web (White), 2
“Chemin de Fer” (Bishop), 75, 96
A Child’s Garden of Verses (Stevenson), 42
Ciardi, John, 245–46
“Cirque d’Hiver” (Bishop), 68, 96
Clampitt, Amy, 300
Clark, Blair, 164
Clark, Eleanor, 32, 53–54, 126, 232
Clark, Eunice, 32
clavichord, 50, 58, 88
Cleaver, Kathleen, 219–21
“The Colder the Air” (Bishop), 96
A Cold Spring (Bishop), 113, 115
Collected Poems (Moore), 106, 115
“Commander Lowell” (Lowell), 148
communism, 31–33, 86–87
Complete Poems (Bishop), 93, 96, 220–21
Conant, Charlotte, 26
“confessional poetry,” 206–21, 249–50, 258–59, 339 n207
Con Spirito, 32–34, 36, 53–54
“Cootchie” (Bishop), 118
cortisone, 112, 256, 264, 267
Costa e Silva, Artur da, 213
The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (Sidney), 60
“The Country Mouse” (Bishop), 207
Couperin, François, 136
Crane, Louise, 30, 36, 45–46, 48, 52, 56–58, 58, 61–70, 63, 64–66, 72–73, 78–80, 99, 118, 200, 259–60, 268, 274–75, 277, 317 n66
“Crusoe in England” (Bishop), 225–26, 237, 255, 280, 299–300
Cumming, Roxanne, 186, 195–201, 205, 212–14, 219–22, 224–26, 253, 319 n79, 341 n222
Cummings, E. E., 35, 87, 126, 304
D
Dalton School, 30
Daughters of Bilitis, 219
Davison, Peter, 299, 301
Dawson, Carley, 99
Day by Day (Lowell), 285
“Dear Dr. Foster” (Bishop), 79, 81
“Dear, my compass” (Bishop), 174–75, 176
“Death” (Herbert), 131
depression, 38–42, 56–62, 166–70, 197–98
Dexamyl, 264, 269
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (APA), 107, 175–76
Dial, 35, 58
The Diary of “Helena Morley” (trans. Bishop), 126, 128
The Disquieting Muses (de Chirico), 249, 345 n249
Diving into the Wreck (Rich), 248–50
The Dolphin (Lowell), 252, 254–55, 257, 284–85
Donne, John, 43, 49, 130
Doors of Perception (Huxley), 143
Douarnenez, 56–58
Dowd, Bill, 41
driving. See car accidents; Soares, Lota de Macedo
Dudley, Thomas, 189
dysentery, 264, 268
E
“Early Sorrow” (Bishop), 125, 325 n125
Eberhart, Richard, 131
eczema, 15–16, 195–96
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 126, 162
“Elegía” (Hernández), 222–24
“Elegy” (Bishop), 222–26
“Elegy” (Fitzgerald), 188
Eliot, T. S., 33–36, 52, 86, 138, 148, 228
Ellis, Havelock, 24, 175
Elysée Hotel, 169
Encounter, 169
“The End of March” (Bishop), 260, 263, 280, 294
English Handwriting (Fry), 51
Envy and Gratitude (Klein), 202
Equal Rights Amendment, 292
“The Equilibrists” (Ransom), 180
Erba, Giovanna Madonia, 131
Erikson, Erik, 265
Ernst, Max, 59
España en el corazón (Neruda), 72
Evelyn (friend), 15–16
“Eye and Tooth” (Lowell), 43
F
Farlow, Helen, 26, 28, 46–47, 311 n14
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 128
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 177, 211, 220–21, 290
“Faustina” (Bishop), 118
Federal Theatre Project, 31
feminism, 95, 107, 123, 226–27, 234, 242–44, 246–50, 261–62, 265, 288, 292
“Filling Station” (Bishop), 115, 124
“First Death in Nova Scotia” (Bishop), 165, 332 n165
“The First Snow-Fall” (J. R. Lowell), 20, 148, 165
“The Fish” (Bishop), 66–70, 75–77, 178, 294
“The Fish” (Moore), 53, 67–68
Fisher, Mate, 12, 14
Fitzgerald, Robert, 3, 95, 136–39, 187–92, 238, 246, 274–80, 284, 288, 299–300, 303
“Five Flights Up” (Bishop), 257–60, 280
Fizdale, Robert, 106, 113, 126, 141, 149, 156
Flamengo Park (Rio), 166, 166, 167–70, 172–73, 180, 183, 195, 199, 216
Flanagan, Hallie, 31, 33–34
Flynn, Judy, 25, 26–28, 36, 79, 121
“Fog” (Clampitt), 300
Ford, Gerald, 137
Ford Foundation, 116
“For Elizabeth Bishop” (Lowell), 253, 342 n225
For Lizzie and Harriet (Lowell), 252
“For Once, Then, Something” (Frost), 138–39
For the Union Dead (Lowell), 206, 253
Foster, Ruth, 78–84, 88–90, 100–101, 107, 125, 175, 228–29, 231, 319 n79
France, 56–63
Frankenberg, Lloyd, 106, 207–8, 276
Freud, Sigmund, 77–79, 243
“From Trollope’s Journal” (Bishop), 162
Frost, Robert, 22, 76, 87, 96, 138–39, 146–47, 149, 228, 304
Fry, Roger, 51
“The Fury of Cocks” (Sexton), 95
G
Galassi, Jonathan, 279, 281
García Lorca, Federico, 72
Gardner, Bob, 284
Garrison Bight, 113–14
gay rights movement, 219–21, 226–27, 292–93
Geography III (Bishop), 141, 236–38, 258–59, 277–79, 285
Giacometti, Alberto, 59
Gibran, Kahlil, 24
Ginsberg, Allen, 304
A Girl of the Limberlost (Stratton-Porter), 121–22
Giroux, Robert, 3, 128, 221–22, 291–92
Glenn, John, 172
Gold, Arthur, 106, 113, 126, 141, 149, 156
Great Village (Nova Scotia), 9–18, 10, 29, 54, 56–57, 69, 209, 263, 324 n118
Greenslet, Ferris, 75
Greenwich Village, 48–50, 84, 106, 207, 210, 218, 293
Gropius, Walter, 116
The Group (McCarthy), 107–8, 169–70, 173–75, 217, 231
Guggenheim fellowship, 84, 286–87
“Gwendolyn” (Bishop), 104, 111–12
H
Haiti, 144
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 98–100, 107, 125–26, 131–32, 171, 219, 225, 254–57, 281–85
Hardy, Thomas, 180
Harvard Advocate, 249, 281
Harvard University
the author and, 38–44
Bishop’s classes at, 2, 135–41, 187–94, 226, 230–31, 236–37, 239–46, 255, 266–67, 275–76, 278–84, 298–305
Fitzgerald’s classes at, 187–94, 275–80
Lowell’s classes at, 42–44, 92–97, 225–26, 228, 230–31, 256–57, 280–81
Marshall’s employment at, 38–40
memorial services at, 1–4
Phi Beta Kappa and, 231, 232–38
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 22
Heaney, Seamus, 95
Hemingway, Ernest, 71
Hemingway, Pauline Pfeiffer, 71, 71, 84, 144
Herbert, George, 22, 131, 267
Hernández, Miguel, 72, 223–24
Hess, Myra, 29
Higbee, Edward, 161
History (Lowell), 252, 285, 342 n225
Holiday, Billie, 66, 200, 317 n66
“Home After Three Months Away” (Lowell), 43, 149
“Homesickness” (Bishop), 89–90, 103–4
homosexuality
Brazil and, 107–8, 294
gay rights movement and, 219–21, 226–27, 234–35, 243–44, 292
The Group and, 169–70, 173–75, 217, 231
“invert” language and, 50–51
Lowell’s relationship with Bishop and, 132–33
persecutions of, 86–87, 175–76, 293–94
psychiatry and, 77–83, 175–76
radical lesbian separatism and, 242, 293
Hope Cemetery, 45, 271, 291–92
Hopkins, Gerald Manley, 22, 33, 36
Horney, Karen, 78–79
Hotel Chelsea, 48–49
Hotel Elysée, 169, 231, 240, 294
Houghton Mifflin, 74–75, 113–14, 128
Houghton Mifflin Poetry Prize Fellowship, 74–75
Hound & Horn, 36–37
Howard, Richard, 183, 267, 271–72, 294, 348 n267
Huxley, Aldous, 143–44, 144, 145–46, 149, 289–90, 329 n146
Huxley, Laura Archera. See Archera, Laura
“Hymn to the Virgin” (Bishop), 32–33
I
Iberica, 260
illnesses. See alcohol; asthma; depression; dysentery; eczema; mental illness
Imitations (Lowell), 169
infidelity
Bishop’s experiences with, 66, 78, 175–86, 195–201, 317 n66
Lowell’s relationships and, 43, 98–100, 130–33, 164, 225, 254–57
inheritance (EB’s), 24, 49, 58
“In Prison” (Bishop), 65, 305
“Insomnia” (Bishop), 114
In the Rose of Time (Fitzgerald), 188
“In the Village” (Bishop), 112, 127, 129, 132, 148–49, 176, 252
“In the Waiting Room” (Bishop), 207–10, 216, 218–19, 225–26, 246, 250–51, 267, 279–80
“Inventory” (Bishop), 203, 207
“inverts.” See homosexuality
Island (Huxley), 289–90
J
James, Henry, 129, 148, 304
“January River” (Bishop), 330 n155
Jarrell, Randall, 75–76, 83, 87, 115–16, 131, 133, 183–84, 207, 217, 276, 284
Jonson, Ben, 332 n165
Jonsrud, Harold, 49
“Judy” (Bishop), 121
K
The Keeper of the Bees (Stratton-Porter), 122
Keewaydin Club, 62–70
Kennedy, John F., 171–72
Kent, Victoria, 260
Kenyon Review, 169, 253
Key West, 65–74, 84–90, 118
Kirkland House, 228, 239–40, 265, 281
Kirkpatrick, Ralph, 41, 50, 58, 317 n66
Kizer, Carolyn, 186, 196
Klein, Melanie, 202, 243–44, 269
Kylso (Soares’s adopted son), 124–25, 148
L
Lacerda, Carlos, 117, 159–60, 172–73, 180, 199
The Ladder: A Lesbian Review, 219
La Guardia, Fiorello, 49–50
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (Yeats), 263
Land, Edwin, 232–33, 235
Landowska, Wanda, 41
“Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow” (Lowell), 148
“Late Sleepers” (Bishop), 267–68
Laughlin, James, 69
Laura X, 234–35
Lavin, Mary, 290
Leão, Rosinha, 109, 117, 152–54, 217
lesbianism. See homosexuality
“Letter to N.Y.” (Bishop), 270–71
Levin, Harry, 234, 290
Lewis Wharf condominiums, 140–41, 261–62, 268, 281, 288–91, 294, 352 n291
Life Studies (Lowell), 148, 165, 176, 206, 255, 285
LIFE World Library series, 167–70
Lispector, Clarice, 169, 218
lithium, 222–23
“A Little Miracle” (Bishop), 55
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 22
Lord, Linda, 135
Lorde, Audre, 248
Lord Weary’s Castle (Lowell), 76, 127
The Lost World (Jarrell), 184
Love, Guilt and Reparation (Klein), 243
“Love Unknown” (Herbert), 267
Lowell, Amy, 128–29
Lowell, Harriet, 43, 125–26, 164, 283
Lowell, James Russell, 20, 22, 165
Lowell, Robert
affairs of, 43, 98–100, 130–33, 164, 225, 254–57, 281–82
Bishop’s relationship with, 76, 82–83, 108, 125–34, 147–48, 150–52, 155, 159, 161, 163–70, 173–74, 206–7, 210, 217–18, 225–31, 245–46, 251–57, 277, 284–86, 304–5, 339 n207
death of, 283–86
fame of, 3, 123, 206, 221–22, 284
Harvard University and, 2, 93–97, 141, 228, 256–57, 280–81
images of, 76, 163, 252
memoir of, 128
mental health of, 94–95, 100, 127, 131–32, 148–49, 164, 219, 222–23, 246, 251–52, 281–82
poetry courses of, 42, 92–97
readings by, 171
See also specific works
Lowell, Sheridan, 254–56, 282, 284
Lucie-Smith, Edward, 173–74
Lynes, George Platt, 52, 52
M
MacCaffrey, Isabel G., 344 n246
MacIver, Loren, 72–73, 73, 106, 115, 207, 216, 258–59, 270, 276
MacLeish, Archibald, 245–46
The Magazine, 33, 36
Mailer, Norman, 292
“Man and Wife” (Lowell), 149
“Manners” (Bishop), 115
“Manuelzinho” (Bishop), 115, 121, 150
“The Map” (Bishop), 54–55, 74, 96
“Marriage” (Moore), 250
Marshall, Megan, 38–44, 91–97, 135–41, 187–94, 232–38, 298–305
Maxwell, William, 143–44, 146
McBride, Katherine, 106
McCarthy, Eugene, 222–23
McCarthy, Mary, 32, 49–54, 107–8, 167, 169–70, 173–75, 217, 277
Melville, Herman, 139
memorial service (for EB), 1–4
mental illness
Gertrude Bishop and, 12–14, 28, 33
heritability of, 39–40, 45–46, 56, 70–71, 130, 149
Lowell’s breakdowns and, 94–95, 100, 127, 148–49, 164, 219, 222–23, 246, 251–52, 281–82
Roxanne Cumming and, 221–22, 349 n222
See also depression
Merrill, James, 226, 260, 267, 271–72, 276, 287
Metamorphoses (Ovid), 139
Methfessel, Alice, 2–3, 141, 239–45, 241, 250–51, 258–59, 262–78, 287, 290–91, 293–95, 303
EB’s memorial service and, 2–3
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 72–73
Mike (counselor), 23–25, 36, 79
Miller, Margaret, 36, 46–47, 47, 48–49, 51, 53–54, 57–59, 62–67, 79–80, 170, 303
Millier, Brett, 291–92, 349 n277, 352 n291
The Mills of the Kavanaughs (Lowell), 100, 127, 252
“A Miracle for Breakfast” (Bishop), 4–6, 55–56, 59–63, 77, 118, 316 n61
A Mirror on Which to Dwell (Carter), 141, 278
Miscellany News (Vassar), 32, 34–35
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 279, 289–90
Monroe, Harriet, 22–24
Moore, Marianne
Adrienne Rich’s comparisons to, 249–50
awards for, 106–7, 115, 221
Bishop’s Vassar period and, 34–37
death of, 228–29
images of, 52, 228
Lowell and, 76–77
mentorship by, 51–77, 83–84, 89, 98–102, 108–15, 122–23, 126, 137, 159, 177, 342 n229, 345 n249
psychoanalysis and, 77–78
readings by, 171
reviews of, 54–55, 75
See also specific works
“The Moose” (Bishop), 228–30, 236–38, 244, 252, 280, 342 n229, 343 n230
Moraes, Vinicius de, 119, 222–23
Morley, Helena (pseud.), 115, 122, 126, 128
Morrell, Ottoline, 329 n146
Morse, Mary, 100–104, 117, 146, 159, 200, 213, 218, 221
Moss, Howard, 121, 157, 176–77, 181–83, 211–12, 231, 257–58, 263, 271–79, 289–93, 304
“Mrs. Sullivan Downstairs” (Bishop), 129
&n
bsp; Mumford, Lewis, 161
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), 8, 230–31
Museum of Modern Art (New York), 30, 64–65, 87, 123
“My Last Poem” (Bandeira), 277
N
Nash, Mildred (Millie), 135, 287–88, 302–3, 305
Nation, 75, 119
National Book Award, 1, 3, 106, 226, 248
National Book Critics Circle Award, 1, 279
National Geographic, 207–10
Natural History (Ernst), 59
Near the Ocean (Lowell), 206
Nembutal, 241, 264, 271
Neruda, Pablo, 72, 224
Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 278
The New Poetry: An Anthology, 22
New Republic, 112, 257
Newsweek, 257
Newton, Isaac, 59
New York City
Bishop’s residences in, 45–46, 49–56, 65, 72–83, 167–70, 206–21
Great Depression and, 49–50, 60–61
Greenwich Village and, 48–49, 84, 106, 207–8, 210
New Yorker
articles for, 104, 127, 129, 277–78
Bishop’s work for, 43, 68, 76, 83, 107, 112, 114, 118–19, 123, 125, 130, 143–47, 151–52, 176, 225–26, 257–58, 260, 263, 273–75, 291–92, 331 n157
Howard Moss and, 121, 151–52, 176–77, 181, 211–12, 231, 257–58, 263, 273–74, 279
Katharine White and, 2–3, 98–100, 104, 106–7, 151–52, 155–56, 162–63, 330 n152
Marshall’s submission to, 298
Rachel Carson and, 147–48
rejections by, 111, 114, 162, 169
reviews in, 169–70
New York Review of Books, 183, 219–20
New York Times, 75, 119, 245
Niemeyer, Oscar, 143, 146, 157–58
Nights and Days (Merrill), 226
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