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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