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The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2008
On Sale: November 28, 2008
928 pages
ISBN: 0374185433
EAN: 9780374185435
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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