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title	:	Remembering Elizabeth Bishop : An Oral Biography
author	:	Fountain, Gary.; Brazeau, Peter.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870239368
print isbn13	:	9780870239366
ebook isbn13	:	9780585233703
language	:	English
subject	Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911-1979--Friends and associates--Interviews, Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911-1979, Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	PS3503.I785Z683 1994eb
ddc	:	811/.54
subject	:	Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911-1979--Friends and associates--Interviews, Bishop, Elizabeth,--1911-1979, Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Page iii Remembering Elizabeth Bishop An Oral Biography Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 94-14811 ISBN 0-87023-936-8 Designed by Mary Mendell Set in Joanna by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fountain, Gary, 1949 Remembering Elizabeth Bishop : an oral biography / Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87023-936-8 (alk. paper) 1. Bishop, Elizabeth, 19111979Friends and associatesInterviews. 2. Bishop, Elizabeth, 19111979Biography. 3. Poets, American20th centuryBiography. I. Brazeau, Peter. II. Title. PS3503.I785Z683 1994 811'.54dc20 [B] 94-14811 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

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Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xi A Brief Chronology xvii 1. Childhood, 19111927 1 2. Walnut Hill, 19271930 20 3. Vassar, 19301934 60 4. New York, Europe, and Key West, 19341940 60 5. Key West and New York, 19411948 88 6. Washington, D.C., and Yaddo, 19481951 109 7. Brazil, 19511957 127 8. Brazil, 19581965 163 9. Seattle, 1966 201 10. Brazil, 19661967 222 11. San Francisco, 19671969 238 12. Ouro Prto, 19691970 254 13. Cambridge, 19701973 269 14. Cambridge and Boston, 19731977 308 15. Boston, 19771979 341 Afterword by Bonnie Costello 353 Notes 357 Notes on Contributors 383 Index 395 Illustrations follow page 186

Page ix Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to quote from previously published and unpublished material: Elizabeth Bishop Papers, Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Missouri: Letters from Barbara Swain to Anne Stevenson and from Julia G. Bacon to Anne Elvin Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Published poems of Elizabeth Bishop, from The Complete Poems, 19271979 (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980) Pauline Hanson, From "The Forever Young and Never Free," Across Countries of Anywhere (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971). Houghton Library, Harvard University: Letter from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell Mrs. Winthrop Merriam, Sr.: Letter from Julia G. Bacon to Anne Elvin Alice Methfessel: Published (from The Complete Poems, 19271979 [New York:Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980]) and unpublished writings and letters by Elizabeth Bishop Papers of Marianne Moore, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia:Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Marianne Moore Frani Blough Muser: Letter from Frani Blough to Elizabeth Bishop Nova Scotia Hospital, Dartmouth, N.S., Canada: Records, "Statement of Nova Scotia Hospital" for Gertrude Boomer Bishop completed by Grace Boomer Bowers Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries: Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Ilse Barker

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