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Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, [ 1 ] the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976 ...
One Art. " One Art" is a poem by American poet Elizabeth Bishop, originally published in The New Yorker in 1976. [1] Later that same year, Bishop included the poem in her book Geography III, which includes other works such as "In the Waiting Room" and "The Moose". [2] It is considered to be one of the best villanelles in the English language ...
Pacific Northwest College of Art. William Benton (born 1939 [ 1]) is an American writer, poet, [ 2] and novelist. He has published multiple volumes of poetry, including Birds, Marmalade, and Backlit. Madly, a novel, was published in 2005. His nonfiction work includes the book Exchanging Hats, on the paintings of poet Elizabeth Bishop and co ...
Visits to St Elizabeths is a poem by Elizabeth Bishop modelled on the English nursery rhyme This is the house that Jack built. The poem refers to the confinement between 1945 and 1958 of Ezra Pound in St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. The nursery rhyme style gives an unusual effect to the strange or unsettling descriptions of a ...
That's right—the queen wore hats decorated with fake flowers bought at Ikea! (It's unclear if she ever sampled the meatballs.) McLaren worked for the royal family's two milliners from 1966 and ...
Reaching for the Moon (Portuguese: Flores Raras, "Rare Flowers") is a 2013 Brazilian biographical drama film, written by Julie Sayres and Matthew Chapman, directed by Bruno Barreto. The film is based on the book Flores Raras e Banalíssimas (in English, Rare and Commonplace Flowers), by Carmem L. Oliveira. The film dramatizes the love story of ...
Louise Crane. Louise Crane (November 11, 1913 – October 20, 1997), a prominent American philanthropist. Crane was a friend to some of New York City ’s leading literary figures, including Tennessee Williams and Marianne Moore. Crane's father Winthrop Murray Crane was an American millionaire and former governor of Massachusetts.
00PNS0221. The Elizabeth Bishop House, also known as the Bulmer House, is an historic single-family house in Great Village, Nova Scotia. The house is associated with Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Bishop who in her youth lived in the house each summer with her maternal grandparents, William Brown Bulmer and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Bulmer.