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Apr 18, 2017 · Turning Pain Into Art. How the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell became each other’s tragic muses. By Meghan O’Rourke. Jules Julien. May 2017 Issue. Elizabeth Bishop, then 35,...
Oct 27, 2008 · In 1947, Elizabeth Bishop published “At the Fishhouses,” in this magazine. Among those who admired the poem was her new friend the poet Robert Lowell. “I liked your New Yorker fish poem,”...
- Dan Chiasson
Dec 12, 2004 · Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were introduced to each other in New York in 1947, by the poet and critic Randall Jarrell. Lowell had just published his second book of poems, “Lord...
Jun 4, 2013 · One of the great modern American literary friendships was between the poets Robert Lowell (1917-1977) and Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). They met in the late 1940s and remained friends,...
- David C. Ward
(For Elizabeth Bishop) Dedication Lowell’s poem is modeled on Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Armadillo,” which Bishop had dedicated to Lowell. Nautilus Island’s hermit. heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; her sheep still graze above the sea. Her son’s a bishop. Her farmer. is first selectman in our village; she’s in her dotage.
Bishop (1911-1979) and Lowell (1917-1977) met in 1947 at a party hosted by another American poetry giant, their contemporary Randall Jarrell (1914-*From Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell , edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, published in October 2009 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.