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Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (LOA #180)

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ISBN-10: 1598530178

ISBN-13: 9781598530179

Edition: 2008

Authors: Robert Giroux, Lloyd Schwartz, Lloyd Schwartz

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Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, editors James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's." Long before a wider public was aware of Bishop's work, her fellow poets expressed astonished admiration of her formal rigor, fiercely observant eye, emotional intimacy, and sometimes eccentric flights of imagination. Today she is recognized as one of America's great poets of the 20th century. This unprecedented collection offers a full-scale presentation of a writer of startling…    
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Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Library of America, The
Publication date: 2/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 975
Size: 5.23" wide x 8.16" long x 1.28" tall
Weight: 1.606

Editor and author Robert Giroux was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 8, 1914. He dropped out of Regis High School shortly before graduation in order to take a newspaper job with The Jersey Journal. He received a scholarship to Columbia University, became editor-in-chief of The Columbia Review, and graduated in 1936. He joined the public relations department at the Columbia Broadcasting System and worked there for four years before finding his first editing job at Harcourt, Brace, and Company in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Navy. He joined Farrar, Straus and Company in 1955 as editor-in-chief and almost 20 of his writers at Harcourt followed him including T. S. Eliot,…    

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