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491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)

The History of Literature

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Is Elizabeth Bishop a New Development?

Elizabeth Bishop was born in 1911, which is kind of surprising that it was so far back. Her father died when she was a baby and her mother suffered from mental illness. Early on, she developed a desire to polish her work,. It makes her poetry a bit less overtly biographical than, say, Robert Lowell. But I think it also has made her more timeless.

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