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Search - Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

Words in Air The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Author: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that ?you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.? The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling ?picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,? and she once begged him, ?Please never stop writing me letters?they always manage ... more »to make me feel like my higher self (I?ve been re-reading Emerson) for several days.? Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell?s death in 1977. The substantial, revealing?and often very funny?interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America?s most beloved and influential poets. Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were among the greatest and most honored poets of the last century. Their poetry, prose, and letters are published by FSG. Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that ?you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.? The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling ?picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,? and she once begged him, ?Please never stop writing me letters?they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I?ve been re-reading Emerson) for several days.?

Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell?s death in 1977. The substantial, revealing?and often very funny?interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America?s most beloved and influential poets. "Their surviving 459 letters, some surprisingly long (Bishop might elaborate hers over weeks, at times swearing she had written Lowell in her imagination), give us the closest view of these wounded creatures?his muscular, bull-in-a-china-shop intellect; her pained shyness and abject modesty, and a gaze like the gleam off a knife . . . The pleasures of this remarkable correspondence lie in the untiring way these poets entertained each other with the comic inadequacies of the world."?William Logan, The New York Times

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ISBN-13: 9780374531898
ISBN-10: 0374531897
Publication Date: 3/16/2010
Pages: 928
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Genres:

Literature & Fiction >> Poetry >> Single Authors >> United States
Literature & Fiction >> Poetry >> Regional & Cultural >> United States >> 20th Century
Literature & Fiction >> Poetry >> Regional & Cultural >> United States >> General
Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( B ) >> Bishop, Elizabeth
Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( L ) >> Lowell, Robert
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