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Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1911-02-08 - 1979-10-06

Biography

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet, author, translator, and educator

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

William Rose Benét Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1100
Scope and Contents:

The William Rose Benét papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and personal and family papers documenting the life and work of American author and editor William Rose Benét. The collection spans the years 1847 to 1957, with the bulk of the collection dating from roughly 1900 to 1950.

Collection material is chiefly in English; with some material in French, Italiana, Russian, and Hebrew.

Dates: 1847-1957, bulk 1920-1950
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William Rose Benét Papers

Louise Crane and Victoria Kent papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 473
Abstract: The Louise Crane and Victoria Kent Papers document the personal and professional lives of Louise Crane, Victoria Kent, and Josephine Boardman Crane, and consist of correspondence, subject files, personal papers, financial documents, clippings, photographs, and slides. The papers provide evidence of the Crane family's philanthropic work and involvement in a number of cultural associations, including the China Institute in America, Harpsichord Music Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and...
Dates: 1809-1998
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Louise Crane and Victoria Kent papers

Robert Fitzgerald papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 222
Abstract: Series I, Correspondence, consists chiefly of incoming personal and professional correspondence and family correspondence. The collection is particularly rich for its correspondence with poets, editors, translators, publishers, and literary scholars and critics during the middle part of the 20th century. There are letters from many well-known poets writing in English during this period, including W.H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Seamus...
Dates: 1892-1986
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert Fitzgerald papers

Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1012
Abstract: The collection consists chiefly of correspondence to the piano duo Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale. Correspondence, dating from the mid 1950s to the end of their professional career in the early-mid 1980s, includes large files for Fizdale's family and their mutual friend Harold Talbott, as well as small files for writers, artists and performers, cultural figures and philanthropists, and others. Correspondents include: Brooke Astor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elizabeth Bishop, Eleanor Clark, Alice...
Dates: 1954-1991
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale papers

Barbara Howes papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 59
Abstract: The Barbara Howes papers contain writings, correspondence, personal and financial papers, and photographs documenting the life and literary career of American poet and editor Barbara Howes. The collection includes extensive files on all of Howes's book-length publications and many manuscripts and typescripts of individual poems, short stories and articles; her correspondence with her family, particularly with her mother and her husband, the poet William Jay Smith; and letters from a wide...
Dates: 1914-1995
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Barbara Howes papers

Letter : Rio de Janeiro, to an unidentified recipient, 1964 Aug 25

 Part of Collection — Box 13: [Barcode: 39002137170222], Folder: GROUP 254, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

TLS to "Dear Keith," discussing a poetry anthology, the birth of recipient's daughter, and an article on Brazilian politics written by recipient and published in The New Leader. With a three-page TL carbon from Keith dated 1964 Sep 15, London, responding to Bishop's comments on his article.

Dates: 1964 Aug 25
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > B > BISHOP, ELIZABETH, 1911-1979

Maureen Owen collection of Greenwich Village poetry

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 218
Abstract: Collection consists of audio recordings, originally recorded on reel-to-reel tape and audio cassette. Many of the recordings are of poets reading their work or the work of others at literary events held by the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City. Also includes recordings of poets reading their work and being interviewed on Susan Howe's radio shows on WBAI Radio in New York. Miscellaneous readings recorded in Connecticut and elsewhere are present. The collection...
Dates: 1975-1981
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Maureen Owen collection of Greenwich Village poetry

T. C. Wilson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 36
Abstract:

The T. C. Wilson Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American poet-critic Theodore Carl Wilson.

Dates: (1928-1947)
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > T. C. Wilson Papers