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One Art

by Elizabeth Bishop

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ISBN13: 9780374226404
ISBN10: 0374226407
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Robert Lowell once remarked, "When Elizabeth Bishop's letters are published (as they will be), she will be recognized as not only one of the best, but one of the most prolific writers of our century." One Art is the magificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction.From several thousand letters, written by Bishop over fifty years—from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979—Robert Giroux, the poet's longtime friend and editor, has selected over five hundred missives for this volume. In a way, the letters comprise Bishop's autobiography, and Giroux has greatly enhanced them with his own detailed, candid, and highly informative introduction. One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, fully displaying the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great artist.

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The modern American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Nation Book Critics' Circle Award, and many other distinctions and accolades for her work.

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One Art............One life............One time around.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374226404
Subtitle:
Letters
Editor:
Giroux, Robert
Editor:
Giroux, Robert
Author:
Bishop, Elizabeth
Author:
Giroux, Robert
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
American
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Bishop, elizabeth, 1911-1979
Subject:
Poets, American
Subject:
Women poets, American
Subject:
Women poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
Subject:
LIT014000
Series Volume:
7
Publication Date:
19940401
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
725
Dimensions:
9.53x7.04x2.37 in. 2.56 lbs.

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