Collection: 1936-1961.

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Collection: 1936-1961.

Poetry Magazine Records, 1936-1953, contain 1 folder of correspondence and manuscripts (approximately 40 items) related to Bishop's submissions of poems and reviews, 1936-1937, 1947 and 1950-1953. Correspondents include Poetry editors Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon and Karl Shapiro. Poetry Magazine Records, 1954-1961, contain 1 folder of correspondence and manuscripts (19 items) related to Bishop's submissions of poems and reviews, 1954-1961. Correspondents include Poetry editors Karl Shapiro and Henry Rago. The Morton Dauwen Zabel Papers contain 3 letters from Zabel to Bishop and 3 letters from Bishop to Zabel, 1936, concerning submissions of poems to Poetry.

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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979

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Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and had an often difficult childhood in Canada and New England. She wrote poetry in her youth, and developed as a writer at Vassar, where her friends included Mary McCarthy and Marianne Moore. In 1946 she published a book of poetry titled North and South, and travelled to Brazil, where she remained for fifteen years. Her 1956 book of poetry, A Cold Spring, won the Pulitzer Prize; her verse was noted for precision and balance. She also p...