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  Nightwood (Barnes), 175

  Nims, John Frederick, 299

  “91 Revere Street” (Lowell), 128, 176, 285

  Nixon, Richard, 162, 266

  North Bennet Street School, 92

  North Haven Island (Maine), 265–66, 269–70, 285–86, 298, 301

  “North Haven” (Bishop), 285–86

  North & South (Bishop), 74–83, 112, 115, 127

  Notebook (Lowell), 225, 252

  Notebook (Lowell, British edition), 253

  Notebook: 1967–68 (Lowell), 222

  “Notes on a Distant Prospect” (Fitzgerald), 191–92, 277–78

  Nova Scotia, 9–21, 31, 44, 54–55, 57, 104, 121–22, 127–28, 147, 265–66, 282, 304

  “November 9” (Marshall), 42

  Nymphos and Other Maniacs, 240

  Nys, Maria, 329 n146

  O

  “Obit” (Lowell), 225

  “O Breath” (Bishop), 114

  Observations (Moore), 35

  “An Octopus” (Moore), 35

  O’Donnell, Mark, 279

  O Globo, 115–16

  Oldenburg, Claes, 94

  “On Being Alone” (Bishop), 29

  “One Art” (Bishop), 273–75, 277, 280, 285, 305

  Onion (Calder), 188

  “On Salathiel Pavy” (Jonson), 332 n165

  “On the Amazon” (Bishop), 155

  Optics (Newton), 59

  Orfeu da Conceição (Moraes), 119

  Other Islands, 299–300

  Otis, James, 235

  Ouro Prêto, 119, 157–58, 170–86, 198–99, 204, 218–22, 226–28, 239–40, 250, 262

  Ovid, 139

  P

  Partisan Review, 65–66, 68, 75, 107–8, 116, 119, 162, 169–70, 217

  Patriquin, Gwendolyn, 20

  Paz, Octavio, 95, 271–72, 304

  Peech, John, 279

  Petrópolis, 102, 103, 104–21, 126, 159, 178, 199–200

  Pfeiffer, Jinny, 84, 144, 146, 200

  “The Phenomenology of Anger” (Rich), 249–50

  Phi Beta Kappa, 231, 232–38

  piano, 16, 19, 29–30, 41–42, 50, 92, 190–91

  “Pink Dog” (Bishop), 224–25

  Plath, Sylvia, 95, 207, 264–65, 345 n249

  Ploughshares, 290

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 65

  “Poem” (Bishop), 43–44, 93, 237, 280

  Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring (Bishop), 115–16, 118, 184

  “Poetry” (Moore), 35

  Poetry Consultant (Poet Laureate), 85–88, 146–47

  Poetry magazine, 4, 22, 35, 62, 75, 111, 183

  Poets Since 1945 (WNYC), 123

  Pombo, Fortunato, 151

  Portinari, Candido, 101, 109

  Pound, Ezra, 22, 35, 60, 87

  Pouso do Chico Rey, 157, 177, 181

  Preferences (Howard), 267, 348 n267

  “The Prodigal” (Bishop), 114

  The Prophet (Gibran), 24

  psychoanalysis, 18, 28, 45–46, 77–89, 107, 125, 129, 164–65, 201–6, 222–23, 228–30, 265

  See also specific analysts

  Pulitzer Prize, 1, 76, 106, 115–16, 123, 132, 254–55, 280, 302

  Q

  Questions of Travel (Bishop), 111–12, 124, 176–77, 183–84, 211, 331 n157

  “Questions of Travel” (Bishop), 115, 280

  Quincy, Josiah, 235

  R

  Rachewiltz, Siegfried Walter de, 281

  Radcliffe College, 39–40, 92–97, 246–47

  See also Harvard University

  Rand, Sally, 295

  Ransom, John Crowe, 100, 180, 332 n165

  “Red-Tail Hawk and Pyre of Youth” (Warren), 236

  Reich, Wilhelm, 176

  Reidy, Affonso, 159

  “The Relic” (Donne), 43

  Revere (Massachusetts), 17–25, 27, 287

  Rexroth, Kenneth, 131

  rhyme, 22–23, 33, 46–47, 96, 110–11

  Rich, Adrienne, 95, 247, 247, 248–51, 292, 301–2, 345 n249

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 58

  Rio de Janeiro

  Carnival and, 120–21, 158, 224–25

  Flamengo Park and, 165, 166, 167–70, 195, 216

  Soares’s apartment in, 102, 158–61, 168–69, 179–80, 182, 184–85, 218

  Rio São Francisco, 203–5, 206

  “The Riverman” (Bishop), 147, 150–51

  Rockefeller, Michael, 189–90, 238

  Rockefeller Foundation, 203

  Roethke, Theodore, 123, 206, 339 n207

  “Roof-Tops” (Bishop), 29

  “Roosters” (Bishop), 69–70, 75–77, 96

  Rosen, R. D., 281

  Rosovsky, Henry, 280

  Rubinstein, Arthur, 41

  “Russia” (Williams), 87

  S

  Sabine Farm, 265–66, 289–90, 294–95

  Sacaca, Joaquim, 151

  Salinger, J. D., 304

  Salter, Mary Jo, 300

  Samambaia, 102–4, 108–27, 143–44, 153–57, 168–71, 179–80, 201, 204, 218, 304

  Sammy (bird), 105–6, 147, 223

  Sandburg, Carl, 87, 146–47, 228

  “Sandpiper” (Bishop), 163, 297

  San Francisco, 219–21

  “Santarém” (Bishop), 283, 286, 293

  Santos (Brazil), 98–99

  Sarton, May, 245

  Saturday Review, 75

  “School of Anguish.” See “confessional poetry”

  Schwartz, Lloyd, 266, 278–79, 283, 294, 319 n82, 348 n267

  Schwartz, Pearl, 112, 152, 212, 218

  Schwitters, Kurt, 154–55

  “The Scream” (Lowell), 253

  Seattle, 184, 186, 195–201, 249

  Seaver, Bob, 47–49, 62–63, 66, 79

  The Second Sex (Beauvoir), 107

  Seidel, Frederick, 207, 339 n207

  Selected Poems (Moore), 52

  “self-portrait” (Bishop), 271–72, 272

  Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Ashbery), 280

  “The Self-Unseeing” (Hardy), 180

  sentimentality, 2–3, 19

  “Sestina” (Bishop), 115, 125, 326 n125

  Seven Sisters, 31

  See also specific schools

  Sewanee Review, 76

  Sexton, Anne, 95, 207, 276, 339 n207

  sexuality

  autobiographical poetry and, 249–50, 291–92, 345 n249

  Camp Chequesset experiences and, 23–24

  feminism and, 246–47

  George Shepherdson’s abuse and, 18–21, 79

  Greenwich Village scene and, 49–54

  marriage models and, 146–47

  Vassar years and, 36–37

  See also feminism; gay rights movement; homosexuality

  “S F” (Bishop), 220–21

  Shameless Hussy Press, 235

  “The Shampoo” (Bishop), 110–12, 114–15, 120, 155, 323 n112

  Shapiro, Amram, 287, 291

  Shawn, William, 107, 143

  Shelley Memorial Award, 116

  Shepherdson, George, 17–18, 18, 18–25, 27, 79, 129

  Shepherdson, Maud. See Bulmer, Maud (aunt)

  Shore, Jane, 94

  short fiction, 65, 103–4, 129

  shyness (EB’s), 3–4, 17, 27–31, 64, 84–85, 117, 125–27, 149, 162, 171, 184, 196–97

  Sidney, Sir Philip, 60

  Signet (society), 281

  Sijé, Ramón, 223–24

  Silent Spring (Carson), 147

  “Skunk Hour” (Lowell), 133, 149

  “The Smallest Woman in the World” (Lispector, trans. EB), 218

  Smithies, Arthur, 240

  Soap Bubbles and the Forces which Mould them (Boys), 21

  Soares, Lota de Macedo

  Bishop’s relationship with, 102–12, 147–64, 175–86, 195–221, 303, 321 n103

  Brazilian friends of, 116–17

  death of, 216–19, 221–22, 224–25, 276

  design and architectural sense of, 109–10, 1
16, 123–24, 161–64, 172–74, 180, 183, 195, 199, 216

  driving habits of, 112–13

  images of, 105, 182, 223

  Mary Morse and, 100–104, 146, 159, 200, 201, 218, 321 n103

  personality of, 112–13, 119–20, 159–60, 166–70, 179–80, 200–201

  political power of, 117, 159, 203–4

  privacy issues and, 149–54

  psychiatric care of, 201–7, 210–16

  wills of, 213

  “Song for the Rainy Season” (Bishop), 155–57, 331 n157

  “Songs for a Colored Singer” (Bishop), 317 n66

  “Sonnet” (Bishop), 291–93, 296

  Sousa, Decio de, 201–7, 210–16

  Spanish Civil War, 72, 224

  Sparine pills, 131–32

  “Squatter’s Children” (Bishop), 115, 118–19, 121

  Stafford, Jean, 99–100, 252

  Stanford, Donald, 36–37, 54

  Stephen, Virginia, 132–33

  Sternberg, Ricardo, 140–41, 279

  Stevens, Marjorie, 70–74, 71, 75, 80, 85, 99, 144, 156, 168–69, 189

  Stevens, Wallace, 22

  Stevenson, Adlai, 126

  The Stones of Florence (McCarthy), 170

  The Stone Wall (Casal), 50, 90

  Stone Wall Inn, 50–51

  Stonewall riots, 293

  “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (Frost), 96

  Strachey, Lytton, 132–33

  Stratton-Porter, Gene, 121

  Subject Matter in Twentieth-Century Poetry, 246, 282

  See also Harvard University

  suicide, 48–49, 248, 271, 275–78

  “Sunday, 4 a.m.” (Bishop), 115

  surrealism, 58–59, 67–68

  “Surrealist Manifesto” (Breton), 58–59

  Sweeney Agonistes (Eliot), 34–35

  Swenson, May, 88, 95, 111–12, 120–26, 143–59, 167–78, 205–7, 212, 246–53, 260, 271–72, 280, 292–93

  “The Swing” (Marshall), 193–94

  T

  Tate, Allen, 100

  Taylor, Edward, 194

  Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 14, 22

  “Terminal Days at Beverly Farms” (Lowell), 148

  “Then Came the Poor” (Bishop), 32–33

  Theoglycinate pills, 88–89

  This Timeless Moment (Archera Huxley), 290

  Thomas, Dylan, 76, 87–88, 129–30

  Thoreau, Henry David, 263

  “Those Various Scalpels” (Moore), 35

  “Through-Composed” (Marshall), 42

  Time Inc., 167–70, 178, 203

  Time magazine, 183, 206–7, 250, 257

  “To a Snail” (Moore), 35

  “To a Steamroller” (Moore), 35

  Tompkins, Hallie, 56, 61–62

  translations (EB’s), 58, 115, 122, 126, 128, 169, 191, 193, 223–24, 276–77

  Trial Balances (anthology), 55

  Trollope, Anthony, 162

  “Trouvée” (Bishop), 211–12, 216

  True Detective, 101

  Twelve Prophets (Aleijadinho), 119

  U

  Uialapiti, 145, 145–50, 203, 209

  Uncle Sam (bird), 105–6, 147, 223

  “Under the Window: Ouro Prêto” (Bishop), 177–78, 181–82, 184, 259–60, 294

  University of Washington, 184, 186, 195–201

  Updike, John and Mary, 299–300

  “The U.S.A. School of Writing” (Bishop), 315 n51

  V

  “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (Donne), 43, 130

  “Valley of 10,000 Smokes” (photo essay), 208

  Van Noort, Olivier, 334 n172

  Vargas, Getulio, 117, 160

  Vassar College, 29–34, 45, 47–48, 54, 107–8, 231, 303

  Vassar Review, 32

  Vendler, Helen, 284, 290, 352 n291

  Venice Observed (McCarthy), 170

  Victor, Thomas, 247, 267, 280

  W

  Wacker, Warren, 264, 277

  “Wading at Wellfleet” (Bishop), 75

  Wagley, Charles, 150

  “Waking in the Blue” (Lowell), 148–49

  Walden (Thoreau), 263

  Walker, Alice, 248

  Walnut Hill School, 25–34, 36, 47, 50–51, 101, 104, 121, 231, 269, 296

  Wanning, Tom, 99

  Warren, Robert Penn, 126, 232, 235–38

  The Waste Land (Eliot), 34, 138

  Wheeler, Rhoda, 269, 275

  Wheelock, John Hall, 299

  “When We Dead Awaken” (Rich), 249, 302

  White, E. B., 2, 107

  White, Katharine, 2, 98–100, 104–7, 111, 115, 142–43, 151–57, 162–63, 274–75, 330 n152

  “White Goddess” (Lowell), 285

  White Street house, 63–66, 71

  WHRC (Women’s History Research Center), 234

  Wilbur, Richard, 123

  Williams, Tennessee, 245

  Williams, William Carlos, 22, 35, 43, 58, 76, 87

  Williamson, Alan, 284

  wills (EB’s), 214–15, 268–77

  Willys Interlagos, 199

  The Wind in the Willows, 229

  Winslow, Harriet, 125

  Winters, Ivor, 36–37

  The Women Poets in English (anthology), 246

  “women’s lib.” See feminism

  Woolf, Virginia, 132–33

  Worcester (Massachusetts), 7–8, 14–17, 27

  World War I, 17, 19, 69

  World War II, 69, 71

  Wright, Rosalind, 287, 291

  Wyatt, Edith, 22

  X

  Xingú River, 143–50

  Y

  “The Yachts” (Williams), 43

  Yaddo, 85, 88–90, 100, 111–12, 173, 260, 322 n104

  Yale Series of Younger Poets, 247

  Yeats, W. B., 263

  You Are Not the Target (Archera Huxley), 170, 290

  Z

  Zander, Patricia, 190

  Text Permission Acknowledgments

  Excerpts from Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box by Elizabeth Bishop, edited and annotated by Alice Quinn. Copyright © 2006 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpts from Poems by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 2011 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust. Publisher’s Note and compilation copyright © 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpts from Prose by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 2011 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust. Editor’s Note and compilation copyright © 2011 by Lloyd Schwartz. Excerpts from One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux. Copyright © 1994 by Alice Methfessel. Introduction and compilation copyright © 1994 by Robert Giroux. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpts from Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton. Copyright © 2008. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

  Excerpts from unpublished letters written by Elizabeth Bishop to May Swenson, Alice Methfessel, Robert Fitzgerald, Anny Baumann, Loren McIver, Dr. Ruth Foster, Rosinha Leão, Magú Ribeiro, Lilli Correia de Araújo, Lota de Macedo Soares, Pearl Kazin Bell, and Randall Jarrell. Copyright © 2017 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust. Printed by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, on behalf of the Elizabeth Bishop Estate.

  Excerpts from unpublished material written by Elizabeth Bishop, including journal entries, draft of poem (26 lines, “In the Waiting Room”), datebooks, teaching observations, college teaching notes, “Trip on the Amazon,” telegraph to Lota de Macedo Soares, draft of introduction to Sylvia Plath’s letters home, unfinished poem “Judy,” autobiographical sketch, Bishop family baby book/photo album. Copyright © 2017 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust. Printed by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, on behalf of the Elizabeth Bishop Estate.

  “Fog” from The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt by Amy Clampitt, copyright © 1997 by the Estate of Amy Clampitt. U
sed by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.

  Excerpts from “Notes on a Distant Prospect” by Robert Fitzgerald, from The Third Kind of Knowledge, copyright © 1984 by Robert Fitzgerald. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

  “For Once, Then Something,” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, copyright © 1951 by Robert Frost. Used by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

  Excerpts from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpts from Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton. Copyright © 2008. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

  Excerpt from “The Eye of the Outsider: Elizabeth Bishop’s Complete Poems, 1927–1979,” from Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979–1985 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 1986 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Excerpt from “The Phenomenology of Anger,” from Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971–1972 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 1973 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Excerpts from “‘When We Dead Awaken’: Writing as Re-Vision,” from Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 2001 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Lines from “Red-Tail Hawk and Pyre of Youth” by Robert Penn Warren quoted with permission of the Estate of Robert Penn Warren.

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  Three Letters

  “Dear father it is a heavy storm I hope you do not have to come home in it.” So begins the record of a life that will end on a homeward journey in another heavy storm, a life unusually full of words, both spoken and written.

 

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