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491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)

The History of Literature

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Is Bishop a Better Poet Than Lowell?

Bishop is much more widely known. More than Lowell's I would say, yeah. She managed to kind of boil down her or universalize her experience in a way that was quite not so usual for the time. Her great villainal, the art of losing isn't hard to master and take something from it. Even if she was writing today, I don't know that her poetry would be that different.

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