Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1911. She lost her father at eight months; her mother was committed to an institution when she was five. Raised by her grandparents in Great Village, Nova Scotia, and then in Massachusetts, with an aunt, she lived on an income inherited from her father. A graduate of Vassar and a friend of Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell, she lived in Key West, then for about fifteen years in Brazil, before teaching at Harvard. She published about a hundred poems, revised at great length. She died in Boston in 1979.

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• PoetryPoems: North & South — A Cold SpringElizabeth Bishop · 1955Literature