Elizabeth Bishop

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Elizabeth Bishop was a 20th-century American poet renowned for her precise, observant verse and emotional restraint, widely regarded as one of the most important poets of her generation.

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Elizabeth Bishop canonical 13

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instanceOf human
poet
short story writer
translator
writer
awardReceived National Book Award for Poetry
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1911-02-08
dateOfDeath 1979-10-06
educatedAt Vassar College
familyName Bishop
fullName Elizabeth Bishop self-link
genre poetry
short stories
givenName Elizabeth
influenced James Merrill
Louise Glück
Seamus Heaney
influencedBy Gerard Manley Hopkins
Marianne Moore
languageOfWorkOrName English
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Letters
movement 20th-century American poetry
notableWork A Cold Spring
Geography III
In the Village
North & South
One Art
Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring
Questions of Travel
The Complete Poems, 1927–1979
The Fish
occupation poet
translator
writer
partner Lota de Macedo Soares
placeOfBirth Worcester, Massachusetts
surface form: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Key West, Florida
surface form: Key West, Florida, United States

New York City
surface form: New York City, United States

Nova Scotia
surface form: Nova Scotia, Canada

Rio de Janeiro
surface form: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
sexOrGender female
sexualOrientation lesbian
style emotional restraint
formal precision
observant descriptive detail

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry notableWinner Elizabeth Bishop
Confessional poetry hasKeyFigure Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop fullName Elizabeth Bishop self-link
Farrar, Straus and Giroux hasPublished Elizabeth Bishop
Marianne Moore influenced Elizabeth Bishop
Bishop hasNotableBearer Elizabeth Bishop
The Dolphin criticizedBy Elizabeth Bishop
Robert Frost Medal notableRecipient Elizabeth Bishop
Walter Bishop hasRelative Elizabeth Bishop
American poetry hasNotableFigure Elizabeth Bishop