A centenary edition of the prose of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the finest American poets of the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911 and graduated from Vassar College in 1934. She travelled widely as an adult, living in Paris, Mexico, New York, Florida, and, for more than a decade, Brazil, before returning to the United States. Her work was immediately prized for its distinctive clarity, precision, and depth, and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among others. Over time she has come to be acknowledged as one of America's greatest poets. She died in Boston in 1979.
The virtues of the prose are the virtues of the poems: observation,
wit, decorum, a sinuous intelligence adn above all what Randall
Jarrell called her 'moral attractiveness'
*Michael Hoffman*
Unhurried, methodical, human, she pronounces a true but merciful
verdict on our precarious existence
*Craig Raine*
[Bishop] was also a fine writer of prose...So hats off to the
publishers for gathering all her writings in two separate
volumes...her cosmopolitan life is reflected in the breadth of her
writings, all suffused with curiosity and quiet intelligence
*Sunday Telegraph*
Taken together [with the Poems: The Centenary Edition], these two
volumes make a handsome tribute to a writer who is gradually,
quietly being recognized...as one of America's greatest
*London Review of Books*
The virtues of the prose are the virtues of the poems: observation,
wit, decorum, a sinuous intelligence adn above all what Randall
Jarrell called her 'moral attractiveness' -- Michael Hoffman
Unhurried, methodical, human, she pronounces a true but merciful
verdict on our precarious existence -- Craig Raine
[Bishop] was also a fine writer of prose...So hats off to the
publishers for gathering all her writings in two separate
volumes...her cosmopolitan life is reflected in the breadth of her
writings, all suffused with curiosity and quiet intelligence *
Sunday Telegraph *
Taken together [with the Poems: The Centenary Edition],
these two volumes make a handsome tribute to a writer who is
gradually, quietly being recognized...as one of America's greatest
* London Review of Books *
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