491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)
The History of Literature
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Writing a Biography or a Short Biography?
In some ways poetry was a saving gift but also she was constantly tormented by wishing to do more. Elizabeth Bishop published us to 100 poems and I kind of knew her a little bit that's part of the in the end a little subplot in the book my running afoul of the Elizabeth Bishop. She had kept some very significant batches of correspondence back shortly after Elizabeth died they sold Elizabeth's papers to Vassar College. Alice had saved all their own correspondence she had saved a handful of letters that Elizabeth wrote to her cycle analyst in the 1940s That were very kind of autobiographies of her upbringing and revealed a lot about a very difficult childhood and early loves.
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