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Abbott, Berenice (photographer), 42–43 Baker, Sheridan, 390 Abrams, M.H. Bandeira, Manuel, xxviii, 120, 182, 198–99, 431 The Mirror and the Lamp, 386 “Brazilian Tragedy,” 199 Acadia University, 21, 378 “My Last Poem,” 199 Altieri, Charles, 129 Barker, Kit and Ilse, xxvii, xxx, xxxiii, 19, 101, the Amazon, xxix, 76, 224, 270, 273, 400 268, 391 Amazon region, 225, 270, 271, 284, 285 Barr, Alfred, 127, 132 American Poetry Review, 139, 376 Barreto, Bruno Anderson, Linda, 141, 143, 176, 250, 386 Flores Raras e Banalíssimas (film, 2013), 9, 76 Apollinaire, 1, 51, 53, 54, 291 Barry, Sandra, 357n9 architecture, xxvii, xxviii, 21, 42, 45, 51, 70, 95, 191, Baudelaire, Charles, 5, 52, 54–55, 56, 155, 156, 159, 201, 266, 268, 386, 387 174, 286, 291, 297 Brasília, 270, 284, 386, 400 “L’Homme et la Mer,” 55 Macedo Soares, Lota de, 9, 70, 386 “L’Invitation au Voyage,” 52, 53, 55, 157 Oscar Niemeyer’s Palace of the Dawn, 386 “Le Balcon,” 54 Scott Brown, Denise, 43 “Le Voyage,” 55 archives, 3, 137–38, 139, 140–42, 143, 144, 200, Baumann, Dr. Anny, xxvi, xxxi, 40, 247, 253, 392 241 Beach, Sylvia, 49 A Biography of Our Baby, 142, See also Bishop, Shakespeare and Company (bookstore), 49 Elizabeth:family:baby book Beitler, Lawrence (photographer), 340 Acadia University Archives, xxxiv, 375 Benton, William, xxxiv, 7, 386 archival documents, 139, 140, 143 Bidart, Frank, xxxiii, 123, 229, 258, 377, 397, 404 archival practice, 138, 144 Birkhoff, George David, 86 archival research, 138, 142 Aesthetic Measure (1933), 86 archival study, 141, 142, 382 Bishop, Elizabeth archive, the (definition), 138 awards Harvard, 137 Academy of American Poets (fellow of), xxx Indiana University Wylie House Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters 140 (fellowship), xxvii Portinari family papers, 139, 142 Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, xxviii queer archive, 140 Bryn Mawr College (fellowship), xxvii Vassar College Library, xxxiii, xxxiv, 117, Dalhousie University (honorary degree), 137–38, 139, 140, 141, 142, 260, 375, 376, xxxiii 401, 402 Festival Literária Internacional de Paraty Arendt, Hannah, 221, 223 (International Literary Festival of Paraty) Ashbery, John, 8, 164, 171, 179, 283, 291, 378, 2020 Honouree, xxxv, 77 397 Guggenheim Fellowship (1947, 1978), xxvi, “Soonest Mended,” 283 xxxiii Auden, W.H., 87, 177, 205, 234 Houghton Mifflin Poetry Prize Fellowship, “Refugee Blues,” 237, 392 xxvi, 237 Axelrod, Steven Gould, 180, 182, 219–20 Ingram-Merrill Foundation Grant, xxxi

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National Book Award, xxxi, 398 Hutchinson, George Wylie (great-uncle), National Book Critics Circle Award, 21, 194 xxxiii Hutchinson, Robert (great-grandfather), Neustadt International Prize for Literature, xxvii, 20 xxxiii, 150, 177 Shepherdson, George (uncle by marriage), Order of Rio Branco, xxxii xxi, xxii, xxiii, 19, 29, 58, 248 Partisan Review Fellowship, xxviii Shepherdson, Maude, née Bulmer (aunt), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, xxviii xxi, xxii, xxv, 19, 20, 58 Shelley Memorial Award, xxviii Uncle Sam the toucan, xxvii, 70 education health, xxxiii, 24, 247, 403 Alliance Française, 49 alcoholism, xxvi, xxx, 24, 35, 140, 246, 247, Camp Chequesset, xxiii, 29 249, 252, 253, 261 North Shore Country Day School, xxiii allergic reaction, xxvii, 70, 335 piano lessons, 233 anesthesia, 248, 252 Primer Class, Great Village, xxii asthma, xxii, xxvi, xxxii, xxxiii, 34, 50, Saugus High School, xxiii 246, 247 Schola Cantorum, 49, 233 auto-immune illnesses, 29 Vassar College, xxiv, 38, 39, 85, 110, 117, 118, bronchitis, xxii 139, 144, 165, 175, 178, 181, 233, 236, 248, depression, xxvi, 24, 261 314, 385, 387, 393 eczema, xxii, xxvi, 34 Walnut Hill, xxiii, 29, 117, eyestrain, xxvi 233 psychotherapy, 247 employment, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, 390 seasickness, 129, 134 Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress, relationships, 249, See also Crane, Louise; xxvii, 112, 181, 224 Correia de Araújo, Lilli; Macedo Soares, lecturer at Harvard, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, 8, 27, Lota de; Methfessel, Alice; Seaver, 59, 71, 95, 105, 112, 122 Robert; Stevens, Marjorie Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lesbian identity, 140, 247, 254, 335 xxxiii residences, 22, 248 New York University, xxxiii 16 Charles Street, New York, 38, 43 University of Washington, xxx, xxxii, 529 Whitehead Street, Key West, 62 1, 149 58 rue de Vaugirard, Paris, xvii, xxv, family 49, 50 ancestors, 18, 20–21 61 Perry Street, New York, xxx, 39 ancestry, 29 623 Margaret Street, Key West, 63 baby book, 143, See also archives: 624 White Street, Key West, xxv, xxxiv, 58 A Biography of Our Baby 875 Main Street, Worcester, xxi Beppo (Boston terrier), 34, 36, 321 Brattle Street apartment, Cambridge, 28, Bishop, Florence (aunt), xxii 46 Bishop, John and Sarah (paternal Casa Mariana, Brazil, xxx, 22, 69, 139, 207, grandparents), xxii, xxiii, 18, 34, 36 268, 386 Bishop, William Thomas (father), xxi, xxiii, Chelsea Hotel, New York, xxv, 38 18, 143, 258 E. 67th Street, New York, 39 Bulmer Bowers, Grace (aunt), xxxiii, 20, 65, E. 69th Street, New York, 39, 46 105, 194 Great Village, Nova Scotia, xxii, xxxiv, Bulmer Ross, Mary (aunt), xxiii, 20, 194 21, 22 Bulmer, Arthur (uncle), 20, 102 Hotel Brevoort, New York, xxiv Bulmer, Gertrude May (mother), xxi, xxii, King Street “garret,” New York, 39, 44 xxiv, 13, 18–19, 22, 72, 143, 227, 229, 248, Lewis Wharf, Boston, xxxii, 27 258, 260, 309, 352, 354 Pouso do Chico Rei, Brazil, xxix, 138, Bulmer, William and Elizabeth (maternal 205 grandparents), xxii, xxiii, 18, 19, 23, 256, Revere, Massachusetts, xxi, xxii, 19, 36 258–59, 261, 341 Rio apartment, Brazil, xxvii, xxxi, 102, childhood abuse, xxii, 25n6, 29, 109, 140, 227, 270 248 Sabine Farm, North Haven, xxxii

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Bishop, Elizabeth (cont.) Complete Poems (1969), xxxi, 120, 200, 291, Samambaia, Brazil, xxvii, xxviii, xxxi, 314, 335, 398 22, 69, 70, 72, 191, 207, 240, 335, Complete Poems: 1927–1979, xxxiii, 375 353, 386 “Cootchie,” 63, 66, 343 Vassar Club, 39 “Crusoe in England,” 22, 110, 137, 154, 155, Worcester, xxii, 18, 29, 36, 233, 156, 175, 200, 230, 241, 278, 279, 319 279 “Current Dreams,” 271 WORKS “Dear Dr” (fragment), 248, 296 Art “Dream–,” 238 “Anjinhos” (shadow box), 134, 201 “A Drunkard,” xxi, 34, 230 “Cabin with Porthole,” 134 “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box,” 237 “County Courthouse,” 134 Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Exchanging Hats: Paintings (1996), Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, xxxiv, 3, 12, xxxiv 72, 141, 376, 399 “Feather Box” (collage), 134 “Electrical Storm,” 387 “Harris School,” 134 “Elsewhere,” 19, 176, 238, 399 “Interior with Extension Cord,” 134 “The End of March,” xxxii, 29, 31–33, 96, “Lamp,” xxvii 115n15, 135, 260, 353, 410 Poetry “Exchanging Hats,” 158, 159, 230, 303 “12 O’Clock News,” 163, 170, 219, 225, 267, “Faustina, or Rock Roses,” 133, 298, 342, 343 303–5, 310, 407 “Filling Station,” 91, 260, 303, 307–11, 396, “Anaphora,” 263, 295, 315 405, 407, 412 An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian “First Death in Nova Scotia,” 121, 201 Poetry (1972), xxxii, 120, 182, 198, “The Fish,” 9–11, 119, 133, 293, 347, 348, 359, 200, 400 361, 392 “Apartment in Leme,” 270 “Five Flights Up,” 28, 35, 40, 46, 245, 294 “Argument,” 91 “The Flood,” 179 “Arrival at Santos,” 44, 71–72, 73, 91, 159, “Florida,” 44, 60, 143, 236–37, 245, 318, 347, 239, 277, 279, 280, 284, 285, 319, 336, 337, 348, 349, 392 353, 399 “Foggy Night at the Chelsea,” 39, 43 “At the Fishhouses,” 55, 216, 217–18, 236, “For Grandfather,” 200 239, 249, 258, 260, 263, 294, 299, 300, “For M.B.S.,” buried in Nova Scotia, xxv 307, 347, 351, 354, 355, 356, 405, 407, “For T. C. B,” 200 408, 412 “Full Moon, Key West,” 60 “Ay, Jalisco!”, 238 “The Gentleman of Shalott,” 61, 144, 151, “A Baby Found in the Garbage,” 227 303, 316–18, 321 The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon (1968), Geography III (1976), xxxiii, 4, 12, 21, 28, 35, xxxi 38, 46, 123, 135, 170, 241, 278, 319, 355, 385, “The Bight,” 54–55, 60, 90, 235, 307, 410 386, 396, 398, 399, 401 “Blue Postman,” 248 “Giant Snail,” 6, 235 “Bone Key,” 60, 64, 65 “Giant Toad,” 235 “Brazil, January 1, 1502,” 6, 71, 120, “Going to the Bakery,” 199, 298 122, 154, 206, 215, 218–19, 224, 226, 240, “House Guest,” 409 269, 277, 280, 285, 347, 349, 353, 360 “Hymn to the Virgin,” 236 “Breakfast Song,” 230, 403–4 “The Imaginary Iceberg,” 4, 17, 40, 43, 44, “The Burglar of Babylon,” 8, 72, 74, 77, 201, 46, 212 202–3, 204, 205, 227, 240 “In the Waiting Room,” xxii, 28, 29, 30, 34, “The Call,” 29 35–36, 45, 90, 91, 103, 133, 140, 153, 171, 211, “Cape Breton,” 6 249, 272, 278–79, 285, 319–20, 321, 344 “Casabianca,” 151 “Insomnia,” 158, 169, 229, 242–43 “Chemin de Fer,” 89 “Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore,” 40, “Cirque d’Hiver,” 165, 245, 362, 392 45, 91, 169, 179, 303, 318 A Cold Spring (1955), xxviii, 263 “It is marvellous to wake up together...,” 63, “A Cold Spring,” xxvii, 44, 112, 159, 169, 179, 139, 230, 355, 376 229, 261–63, 282, 299, 318, 349, 354, 399 “Jerónimo’s House,” 62, 392

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“Large Bad Picture,” 21, 348, 392, 412 Poems (2011), xxxiv, 90, 140, 202, 263, 291, “Late Air,” 58, 237 381 “Letter to N.Y.,” 40, 43, 44, 45, 91, 236 Poems: North & South—A Cold Spring “Lines Written in a Copy of Fannie (1956), xxviii, 263 Farmer’s Boston Cooking School “The Proper Tears” (unpublished Cookbook, given to Frank Bidart,” 397 masque), 8 “Little Exercise,” 236 “Quai d’Orléans,” 50, 52–53, 55, 153, 392 “Longer than Aladdin’s burns, / Love, & “Questions of Travel,” xxx, 19, 38, 71, 176, many Happy Returns” (inscription), 229, 235, 238, 239, 273–74, 277–78, 279, xxvii 280, 286, 287n15, 318, 336, 353, 386, 390, “Love Lies Sleeping,” 39, 40, 41–43, 44, 45, 398, 399 50, 131 “Rainy Season; Sub-Tropics,” 6, 156, 235, “Lullaby for a Dark Child” (unpublished 245, 303, 361, 362, 412 lyric), 238 “The Reprimand,” xxiv “Luxembourg Gardens,” 49, 50 “The Riverman,” 71, 155–157, 245, 270–72, “The Man-Moth,” 7, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 61, 319, 361 132–33, 158, 163, 168, 293, 295, 303, 317, “Roosters,” xxvi, 11, 111, 144, 213–16, 218, 219, 361, 392, 405 220, 237, 292, 361, 364–69, 392 “Manners,” 121 “Salem Willows,” 34, 239 “Manuelzinho,” 4, 71, 72, 73, 74, 78n6, 100, “Sandpiper,” 5, 30, 150, 151, 179, 361 155, 298, 303, 308, 342–43 “Santarém,” 17, 71, 72, 76, 77, 153, 224, 273, “The Map,” xxiv, 23, 38, 40, 113, 212, 277, 275, 277, 280, 303, 306, 331, 343 325–26, 327, 328, 329, 348 “Seascape,” 98, 158, 245, 392 “Mermaid Milk,” 64 “Sestina,” 121, 201, 298, 353, 412 “A Miracle for Breakfast,” 263, 308 “The Shampoo,” xxviii, 90, 91, 230 “The Monument,” 5, 44, 60, 91, 132, “Sleeping on the Ceiling,” 44, 50, 158, 165, 166, 176, 183, 245, 266, 293, 316, 330, 212, 245, 361, 392 392 “Sleeping Standing Up,” 50, 165, 295, “The Moose,” xxvi, xxxii, 20, 23, 24, 119, 133, 299, 300 152, 249, 260, 278, 293, 294, 299–300, 319, “Some Dreams They Forgot,” 295 338, 347, 355, 359, 360, 361, 386, 405 “Something I’veMeanttoWriteAboutfor30 “The Mountain,” 399 Years,” 341 “Night City,” 245 “Song – for the Clavichord,” 50 North & South (1946), xxvi, xxviii, 7, 9, 10, “Song for the Rainy Season,” 189–92, 240, 21, 30, 38, 40, 58, 63, 89, 111, 166, 176, 177, 353, 387, 410 211–12, 234, 236–37, 263, 295, 315, 340, “Song” (1928), 236, 240 348, 390–91, 397 “Songs for a Colored Singer,” 64–65, 199, “North Haven,” xxxiii, 30, 32, 178, 241, 401 237–38, 240, 338, 392, 396 “Objects & Apparitions” (translation), 123, “Sonnet” (1928), 410 182, 241, 398, 400 “Sonnet,” 90, 230, 236, 241, 402 “On the Railroad Named Delight,” 74, 234, “Squatter’s Children,” 410 281, 342 “The Street by the Cemetery,” 64 “One Art,” xxxiii, 12, 27, 59, 91, 225, 230, “Suicide of a Moderate Dictator,” xxviii 268, 278, 303, 306–7, 331, 332, 401 “A Summer Dream,” 229 “Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete “Three Poems,” 40, 41, 43, 45 Concordance,” 2, 63, 224, 260, 263, 267, “Three Sonnets for the Eyes,” 130 272, 277, 282, 318, 388 “Three Valentines,” xxiv “Paris, 7 A.M.,” 50–52, 53, 55, 131, 133, “Travelling, A Love Poem,” 279 165, 245 “Trouvée,” 39, 40 “Pink Dog,” 8, 71, 72, 77, 158, 159, 203, 227, “The Unbeliever,” 245, 257, 409 228, 241, 303, 342, 361, 409 “Under the Window: Ouro Prêto,” 199 “Pleasure Seas,” 63, 64, 347, 355, 356 “Vague Poem (Vaguely love poem),” 230, “Poem,” 21, 113, 135, 143, 194–95, 275, 356, 320, 328 410, 412 “Varick Street,” 40, 42, 44, 91, 169, 293

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WORKS (cont.) Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence “View of the Capitol from the Library of between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Congress,” 221, 223 Lowell (2008), xxxiv, 107, 141, 381, 382 “Villanelle,” 49–50 Bishop studies, 3, 90, 142, 314, 373–76, 379, 380, “Visits to St. Elizabeths,” 171 382, 396, 399 “Wading at Wellﬂeet,” 30, 89 Blake, William, 5, 8, 30, 150–51, 152, 179, 293, “The walls went on for years & years ...,” 63 299, 387 “The Weed,” 131, 166, 168, 245, 260, 293, “Auguries of Innocence,” 150 297, 298, 392 Bloom, Harold, 397, 398 “The world’s obsessive imagery–,” 66 Blough Muser, Frani, xxiii, 48, 234 Prose Boas, Franz, 268–69, 270 “The Baptism,” 259 Bogan, Louise, 88, 89, 211, 389 Brazil (1962), xxix, 75, 95, 97, 98, 201, 203, Boston, Massachusetts, xxi, xxiii, xxvi, xxxii, 284, 400, 402, 403 7, 27, 29, 39, 71, 109, 122, 360, Collected Prose (1984), xxxiii, 375, 398, 374 399, 402 Bradley, Louise, xxiii, 3, 29, 109, 138, 140 The Diary of “Helena Morley,” xxviii, 73, 95, Brant, Mrs. Alice Dayrell Caldeira, 121 99–101, 120–21, 204, 268, 400, 403 Minha Vida de Menina (“My Life as a Girl”), “The Country Mouse,” xxii, 9, 34, 36, 321 73, 121, 268 “The Deadly Sandpile,” xxvii Brasil, Emanuel, xxxii, 182, 198, 200 “Dimensions for a Novel,” 53, 178, 236, 387 Breton, André, 49, 164, 165 “Efforts of Affection,” 9, 39, 144 Brinnin, John Malcolm, xxxii, 31 Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: Britto, Paulo Henriques, 73, 77, 205 The Complete Correspondence, xxxiv, 381 Brooks, Gwendolyn, xxxii “Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Brower, Ruben, 89 Timing in His Poetry,” 178, 387 Brown, Ashley, 73, 120, 182, 397 “Gregorio Valdes,”1979–1939, 9 Browning, Robert, 8, 149, 156 “Gwendolyn,” xxviii, 9, 121, 239 Bryher, Winnifred, 247, 296 “In Prison,” 96 Burton, Richard, 267–68 “In the Village,” xxviii, 9, 19, 97, 101, 121, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, 268 171, 239, 259–60, 294, 347, 354–56, 398, 399 Cabral de Melo Neto, João, 73, 120, “It All Depends,” 180 198, 202 “Memories of Uncle Neddy,” 9, 20, 97, 100, The Death and Life of a Severino, 120 101, 341 Camp Chequesset Log, 29 Modern Architecture in Brazil (1956). See Cape Breton, xxvi, 55, 111, 112, 299, 347, 349, 350, Mindlin, Henrique 353, 355 “A New Capital, Aldous Huxley, and Some Cardozo, Joaquim, 120, 182, 201 Indians,” 284, 386 “Cemetery of Childhood,” 201 One Art: Letters (1994), xxxiv, 379 Carlyle, Jane, 105 Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008), xxxiv, 140, Carlyle, Thomas, 105, 113, 149 399, 402 Carroll, Lewis, 158, 384 “Primer Class,” 21, 97, 101 Carter, Elliott (composer), 242–43 Prose (2011), xxxiv, 9, 95, 107, 381, 403 A Mirror on Which to Dwell (Six “The Sea and Its Shore,” 50, 61, 96, Poems of Elizabeth Bishop) (1975), 266, 412 242, 396 The North Haven Journal, xxxiv Castro, Fernando de, 74, 340 “Time’s Andromedas,” 53, 97, 177–78, 236, Caws, Mary Ann, 132 385, 387–88 Chagall, Marc, 169 “To the Botequim and Back,” 281 Chekhov, Anton, 105, 158 “A Trip on the Rio São Francisco” Ciardi, John, 180, 181, 388 (unpublished), 281 Clark, Sir Kenneth “A Trip to Vigia,” 281 Landscape into Art, 353 “The U.S.A. School of Writing,” xxiv, 9 Cleaver, Kathleen, xxxi “A Warm and Reasonable People,” 281 Cleghorn, Angus, 54, 63, 75, 273, 377

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Cohen, Milton, 88 dreamwork, 246, 249 Colby, Kate, 406–7, 412, 413 Drummond de Andrade, Carlos, 73, 77, 120, Dream of the Trenches, 406 182, 198 Cold War, 174, 180, 216, 218, 221, 225, 277 “Carnival 1970,” 203 Lavender Scare, 228–29 “Family Portrait,” 201 Cold War poetics, 221–24, 229, 230 “Hill of Babylon,” 201–2 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 4, 8, 177, 391 “Infancy,” 200 “Ancient Mariner,” 305 “National Favelário,” 202 “Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream: “Seven-Sided Poem,” 200 A Fragment,” 250, 293 “The Dead in Overcoats,” 201 Biographia Literaria, 4 “The Ill-fated,” 200 colonialism, 28, 69, 72, 77, 120, 143, 206, 225, 278, “The Table,” 201 285, 304, 337, 345, 347, 349, 353 “Travelling in the Family,” 199, 200, Con Spirito (magazine), xxiv, 236 201–2 Cook, Eleanor, 8, 50, 87, 291 Duncan, Robert, xxxi, 171 Against Coercion: Games Poets Play, 50 Cornell, Joseph, 123, 134, 164, 182, 241, 398 Edelman, Lee, 331, 379 Correia de Araújo, Lilli, xxix, xxx, xxxi, 138 Eliot, T. S., xxiv, 1, 90, 149, 175 Correio da Manhã (newspaper), 269 The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, 149 correspondence. See letters The Waste Land, 191 Costello, Bonnie, 6, 40, 54, 132, 265n16, 330, Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin, 74, 77, 376–78, 336, 359 380 Cowley, Malcolm, 88 Elizabeth Bishop House, xxxiv Crane, Hart Elizabeth Bishop Society, xxxiii, 376 The Bridge (1930), 41 Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia, Crane, Louise, xvii, xxiv, xxv, 44, 48, xxxiv 49, 50, 58, 63, 110, 247 Ellis, Jonathan, 64, 141, 181, 227 Crashaw, Richard “Introduction: Incompatible Bishops?,” “The Weeper,” 130 373 Croll, Morris W., 95, 103 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 149, 285 “The Baroque Style in Prose,” 130, 386 Empson, William, 385, 389 Cumming, Roxanne, xxx, xxxi Ernst, Max, 127, 129, 131, 132, 165–66, 168, 296, cummings, e.e., 1, 175, 177, 199, 306 316, 330, 332n17 Xaipe (1950), 177 Histoire Naturelle, 131, 165 Curry, Renée, 338, 341, 342 the Everglades, 57, 58

Darwin, Charles, 7, 108, 165, 266, 292 Farmer, Jonathan, 409 de Chirico, Giorgio, 296 Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1957), 121 de Queiroz, Rachel, 70, 76 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 141, 375, 381, 398, Defoe, Daniel, 230, 278 402 Robinson Crusoe, 28, 319 Flynn, Richard, 248, 254, 378 Dewey, Jane, xxvi, xxvii, 261, 262, 263 “Bishop Studies Comes of Age: The Books of Dewey, John, xxvi, 249, 250 1993,” 378 Diamant, Fernanda, 77 Foster, Dr. Ruth, xxii, xxvi, xxxiv, 3, 40, 109, 137, Diamantina, Brazil, xxviii, 121, 268 140, 245, 247–53, 294, 352, 386 Dickie, Margaret, 63, 338, 339, 343, 378, 418, 444 Fountain, Gary and Brazeau, Peter Dickinson, Emily, 7, 260 Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Diehl, Joanne Feit, 173n27, 314, 379 Biography, 257, 379 Donne, John, 8, 390 Frankenberg, Lloyd, xxx, 251 Doty, Mark, 405 Freud, Sigmund, 33, 164, 183n1, 245, 251, 254, 285, Atlantis, 405 294, 302, 303 Douarnenez, Brittany, 48, 118 Freyre, Gilberto, 267, 268–70 dream, 300, 340 The Masters and the Slaves, 268, 269 dreams, 7, 107, 109, 129, 151, 158, 163, 164, 165, 168, Frost, Robert, xxvii, 59, 408 248, 271, 291–99 “For Once, Then, Something,” 408

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Gioia, Dana (student of EB), 59, 385 In Her Shoes (film, 2005), 9 Giroux, Robert, xxxiii, xxxiv, 7, 9, 375, 380, 398, Indians, 269, 270, 284, See also indigenous 399, 400, 402, 404 peoples Gold, Arthur and Fizdale, Arthur, 106, 396 Indian Protection Service, 270 Goldensohn, Lorrie, 71, 139–40, 141, 255n10, 271, the Uialapiti, xxix, 284, 285 276n14, 314, 322n5, 357n8, 359, 364, Xingu Indians, 270 369n3, 376, 377 indigenous peoples, 6, 225, 226, 270, 347, See also Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, 139 Indians Gray, Jeffrey, 224, 273, 353 indigenous genocide, 349 Great Salem Fire, 34, 309 Îsle Saint Louis, 52 Grifalconi, Ann, xxxi Guex, Germaine, 246, 253 Jackson, Virginia, 84 La Névrose d’Abandon, 253 Jacob, Max, 54, 119, 122, 263, 291, 296, Gunn, Thom, xxxi, 386 297, 400 “Establishment of a Community in Brazil,” Hammer, Barbara 120, 122 Welcome to this House (documentary film, “Patience of an Angel” and “Hell is 2015), 9 Graduated” (prose poems), 54, 119 Handy, W. C. “Rainbow” and “Banks” (verse poems), “St. Louis Blues”, 238 54, 119 Hardwick, Elizabeth, xxix, xxxii, 113, Jarrell, Randall, xxvi, 23, 171, 177, 237, 385, 390, 333n24 391, 392, 393 Harper’s Bazaar, 403 Johnson, Barbara, 326 Harrison, Victoria, 141, 200, 328, 329, 364, Jonson, Ben, 8 377, 379 Jornal do Brasil, 206 Hart, Lorenz “Mountain Greenery” (1926), 239 Kalstone, David, 59, 118, 390 Harvard. See Bishop, Elizabeth: employment “Questions of Memory, Questions of Travel” Harvard Advocate, 123 (1977), 374 Haughton, Hugh, 310 Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Hejinian, Lyn, 408–9, 413 Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell Positions of the Sun, 409 (1989), 107, 376 Hemans, Felicia Keats, John, 1, 8, 89, 105, 151, 158, 391 “Casabianca” (1826), 151 Endymion, 151 Hemingway, Pauline (Mrs.). See Pfeiffer, Pauline Keller, Lynn, 167 Herbert, George, 7, 8, 54, 155, 259 Key West, xxv, xxvii, 13, 57–60, 61–62, 64, 66, “Love Unknown,” 298 237 Hicok, Bethany, 228, 271, 272, 382 Key West Literary Seminar, xxxiv, 377 Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil, 70 Key West notebooks, 60, 66, 246, 261, 293, HMS Bowplate, xxvii, 70 294, 379 Holiday, Billie, 65, 237, 340 Kirkpatrick, Ralph, 237 “Strange Fruit,” 65, 238, 340 Klee, Paul, 129, 164, 179 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 30, 87, 130, 155, 158, “ On Modern Art” (1924), 134 259, 261, 262, 263 Klein, Melanie, 246, 254 “Andromeda” (1879), 178 Envy and Gratitude, 254 “Hurrahing in Harvest,” 159 “Spring,” 262 Lacerda, Governor Carlos, xxix, xxx, “Windhover,” 151 228 The Wreck of the Deutschland, 159 Laforgue, Jules Horney, Karen, 247 Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue, Houghton Mifflin, xxvi, 121, 237 53 Hughes, Langston Laurans, Penelope, 92 “Harlem” (1951), 340 Lear, Edward, 157, 158 Huxley, Aldous, 270, 386, 387 Nonsense Books, 158 and Laura, xxviii, 284, 400 lesbian poet, 215, 314, See also queerness

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letters, 11, 18, 29, 48, 49, 71, 77, 78, 87, 95, 97, 122, MacMahon, Candace 137, 138, 140, 179, 183, 187, 199, 205, 294, Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography, 1927–1979, 374 341, 375, 381, 389, 400, 403 MacNeice, Louis as art form, xxxii, 7, 95, 105–6, 108, 347 “Bagpipe Music,” 237, 392 love letters, 140 Magritte, René, 133, 296 the Bradley correspondence, 109–10, 138 “The False Mirror” (painting), 133 the Darwin letter, 107, 180, 292 Mallarmé, Stephané, 55, 205 the Foster letters, 108, 140, 143, 247, 248, 249, Marshall, Megan, 12, 27, 141, 250 250, 251, 352 McCarthy, Mary, xxiv, 33, 38 the Lowell correspondence, 111–13, 187, McCrae, Shane, 407–8, 411, 412, 413 193, 376 In the Language of My Captor, 407 the Moore correspondence, 110–11 McLane, Maureen, 405, 406 the Stevenson correspondence, 131, 167, 175, Meeropol, Abel, 65, 238, 340 250, 391, 400 “Bitter Fruit,” 65, 238 Leviston, Frances, 55 Meredith, William Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 267, 272–75 “Invitation to Miss Elizabeth Bishop,” “Robinson Crusoe,” 274 397 Tristes Tropiques (1955), 272–74, 284 Merrill, James, xxvii, xxxi, 5, 186, 234, 391, Library of America, 2, 140, 284, 380, 381, 397, 405 399–403, 404 “Her Craft,” 397 Lincoln Otis, Elizabeth “Overdue Pilgrimage to Nova Scotia,” “An ‘If’ for Girls,” 354 405 Lispector, Clarice, xxx, 73, 77, 95, 122, 198, “The Victor Dog,” 235 206, 401 Methfessel, Alice, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, 3, 12, “A Hen,” xxx, 206 27, 28, 31, 110, 139, 140, 225, 254, 375, 404 “Marmosets,” xxx, 206 Mexico, xxvi “The Smallest Woman in the World,” xxx, Miller, Margaret, xxiv, xxv, 50, 53, 129, 122, 206 132, 134 literary criticism, xxiv, 2, 53, 139, 140, 189, Millier, Brett, 12, 48, 76, 141, 158, 165, 172n7, 247, 192, 296, 331, 375, 384, 385, 386, 255n8, 259, 261, 312n17, 377, 379 387, 388, 389, 391, 392, 393, See also reviews Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of Logan, William It (1993), 76, 107 “Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp,” 29 Mindlin, Henrique Lombardi, Marilyn May, 119, 140, 377, 379 Modern Architecture in Brazil (1956), xxviii, Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender, 386 140, 379 Modern Language Association, 376, 396 Longenbach, James, 87, 175, 176, 178, 405 modernism, 85, 155, 174–75, 177–83, 314 Modern Poetry After Modernism (1997), 175, 405 modernismo movement, 182 Lowell, Robert, xxvi, xxxi, xxxiii, 4, 10, 12, 21, 29, modernist, Bishop as, 174, 175–77, 179, 181, 39, 99, 116, 118–19, 153, 155, 177, 187, 234, 189, 314 251, 256, 262, 271, 284, 294, 376, 385, 389, the modernists, 113, 169, 174, 175, 178, 385, 387 390, 391–93, 399 Moore, Marianne, xxiv, xxvi, xxx, xxxii, 4, 5, 7, “91 Revere Street,” 102, 398 30, 39, 48, 50, 58, 110–11, 121, 127–28, 139, The Dolphin (1973), xxxii, 33, 113 141, 144, 158, 167, 169, 171, 174, 175–76, “Dropping South: Brazil,” 284 177, 198, 213, 234, 246, 247, 251, 256, 279, “Memories of West Street and Lepke,” 193 307, 318, 363, 364, 376, 381, 389, 390–91, Imitations (1961), 118 392, 412 Life Studies (1959), 189, 192, 193, 196n13, 200, “Marriage,” 213 223, 252, 398 “Poetry,” 327 Lowney, John, 64 Trial Balances (anthology), xxiv “What Are Years?” (1940), 30 Macedo Soares, Lota de, xxvi, xxvii, 3, 9, 12, 27, Morrissey, Patrick, 409–10, 412 70, 71, 106, 120, 191, 198, 200, 230, 251, “Figures,” 409 306, 307, 314, 330, 335, 353 Morse, Mary, xxvi, xxxi, 335, 342 MacIver, Loren, xxx, 39, 251, 253, 294 Morshed, Adnan, 41

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Moss, Howard, xxv, 1, 31, 45, 107, 151, 157, 194, Paris, 48, 49–52, 314, 335 216, 233, 386, 389 Paris Review, 165 Muldoon, Paul, 170, 305 Parker, Robert Dale, 257 Mullen, Richard, 166, 296 Elizabeth Bishop: The Unbeliever, 375 Muñoz, Jose, 331, 332 Paro, Maria Clara Bonetti, 70, 77 music, 13, 55, 58, 85, 223, 233–37, 241–42, Partisan Review, xxviii, 88, 237, 256, 390 272, 382 Patterson, William Morrison blues, 8, 64, 238, 242, 338, 339, 340 The Rhythm of Prose (1916), 85 clavichord, xxv, 49, 233, 234 Paz, Octavio, xxxii, 122–23, 134, 182, 241, 384, hymns, 20, 233, 234, 239, 352 397, 398 L’Homme armé, 240 “The Grove,” 123 Latin American, 8, 121, 190, 201, 202, 205, 234, “Translation: Literature and Letters” 240, 241, 273, 281 (Traducción: Literatura y literalidad literatura de cordel, 240 (1971), 123 military, 224 Perloff, Marjorie, 174, 180 music studies, xxiv, 85, 233 Petrópolis, Brazil, xxix, 207, 337, See also Bishop, music writing, 234 Elizabeth:residences:Samambaia Pfeiffer, Pauline, xxv, 11, 306 Nash, Mildred J. (student of EB), 158, Phillips, Siobhan, 308, 368 384–85 Picasso, Pablo, xxv, 49, 126, 129, 132, 165, Nemer, Linda, 139, 376, 401 213, 214 Neruda, Pablo, xxvi, 166, 169, 170, 179 Guernica, 213 New Critical theory, 87, 88, 89, 91 Pickard, Zachariah, 173n12 New Critics, 92 Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description, 296 New York City, 38–46 Pires, Gloria, 9 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 128, 223 Poe, Edgar Allan, 87, 101, 299, 326, 327, 331 The Ironies of American History, 223 “The Poetic Principle,” 327 Niemeyer, Oscar, 386 “The Raven,” 331 Nogueira, Nadia Poetry, 119 Invenções de Si em Histórias de Amor Ponge, Francis, 170 Lota Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop (Self- Porter, Cole, 234 inventions in Love Stories Lota Macedo Pound, Ezra, xxvii, 174, 176, 181, 188, 234, 257, Soares and Elizabeth Bishop), 76 258, 259, 387 Normal People (tv series, 2020), 9 ABC of Reading (1934), 234 North Star steamer, xxiii Proust, Marcel, 53, 54, 178, 291 Proustian, 51 O’Connor, Flannery, 256, 258 Przybycien, Regina, 69, 205, 380 O’Neill, Michael, 389 psychoanalysis, 245–47, 249, 251, 252–53, 254, See Oliveira, Carmen, 401 also Foster, Dr. Ruth Flores Raras e Banalíssimas: A História de Lota de Macedo Soares e Elizabeth Bishop queer icon, Bishop as, 9 (1995), 9, 75 queer poet, Bishop as, 139, 140, 179 Olson, Charles, 59 queer poetry, 214, 229 “Projective Verse” (1950), 180 queerness, 223, 224, 228, 229–30, 331–32 Ostriker, Alicia, 364 Quinn, Alice, xxxiv, 12, 72, 141, 381, 404 Otto, Miranda, 9 Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, xxviii, xxx, xxxii, 22, race, 6, 28, 62, 63, 64, 206, 221, 268, 269, 281, 318, 27, 69, 73, 77, 138, 203, 205, 206, 207, 268, 319, 336–39 376, 378 racism, 65, 269, 319, 320, 322, 340–41, 345 Ku Klux Klan, 65 Pablo, Neruda Rankine, Claudia, 84, 410 “Alberto Rojas Jiménez Comes Flying,” Citizen, 409 169 Ravinthiran, Vidyan, 55, 72, 242, 303, 386 Page, Barbara, 59, 73, 141, 176, 293, 379, Elizabeth Bishop’s Prosaic, 55, 386 401 Reaching for the Moon (ﬁlm, 2013), 76, 405

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Rekdal, Paisley, 405 Sexton, Anne, 187, 192–94 “At the Fishhouses,” 405 All My Pretty Ones (1962), 193 reviewers, 88, 175, 343, 384, 390, 391, 392 To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), reviews, 108, 112, 116, 176, 384, 389, 397, 400, See 192 also literary criticism Shakespeare, William, 8, 33, 89, 408 Rich, Adrienne, 11–12, 65, 100, 139, 314, 335, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 293 337, 338 The Tempest, 293 Richardson, Dorothy, 97, 101, 178, 179, 387 Shapiro, Karl, 180, 187, 188 Rimbaud, Arthur, 48, 54, 55, 118, 165, 291 In Defense of Ignorance (1960), 187 Illuminations, 54, 291 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 8, 151, 391 Rio de Janeiro, 71, 74–75, 77, 102, 187, 199, “A Defence of Poetry,” 84 201, 203, 205, 218, 226, 228, 234, 281, “Alastor,” 151 335 Sheringham, Michael, 167 Aterro do Flamengo park, xxix, xxx, Shetley, Vernon 228 After the Death of Poetry (1994), 405 favelas, 201–3, 207, 228 Shore, Jane, 247, 410 Leme, 206 Sontag, Susan, 273 Rio São Francisco voyage, 268, 400 Snodgrass, W. D. Roethke, Theodore, 1 Heart’s Needle (1959), 192, 193 Rognoni, Francesco, 74 Spiegelman, Willard, 396, 405 Romanticism, 86, 87, 149, 150, 156, 182, 192, 305, Square Roof, 63 314, 326, 348 SS Königstein, 129 the Romantics, 32, 153, 175, 391 Stallings, Andy, 410–11 Rosenbaum, Susan, 131, 163, 170 Paradise, 410, 413 Rukeyser, Muriel, xxiv, 180 Stanford, Donald, 51, 52, 391 Ryan, Kay (former U.S. poet laureate), Starbuck, George, 199, 365, 397 405 Steedman, Carolyn, 138, 139, 143 Stein, Gertrude, xxiv, xxv, 49, 97, 164, 178, Sable Island, Nova Scotia, xxvii, 20 229, 385 Saintsbury, George, 97 “Composition as Explanation” (1925), Historical Manual of English Prosody (1910), 85 385 Salter, Mary Jo (student of EB), 377 “Entity vs Identity” (lecture), xxv, 385 Samuels, Peggy, 128, 132, 141, 386, 407, 411 “Portraits I Have Written and What I Think San Francisco, xxxi, 39, 234 of Repetition, Whether It Exists or No” Santiago, Silviano, 73, 77 (lecture), xxiv, 385 Scandura, Jani, 61, 64 Stevens, Marjorie, xxvi, 63, 110, Schapiro, Meyer (art critic), 126, 129 112, 248 Schmidt, Tyler T., 63 Stevens, Wallace, 126, 128, 176 Schwartz, Delmore, 180, 181 “Harmonium,” 176 Schwartz, Lloyd, 9, 71, 95, 202, 338, 380 “Sunday Morning,” 350 Prose (2011), 75 “The Auroras of Autumn,” 217 That Sense of Constant Re-Adjustment: “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words” Elizabeth Bishop’s North & South (1976 (1941 lecture), 178 dissertation), 396 Owl’s Clover (1936), 176 Schweick, Susan Stevenson, Anne, xxix, xxx, 23, 29, 32, 48, A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets 54, 107, 116, 118, 165, 167, 169, 189, 240, and the Second World War, 245, 250, 260, 292, 293, 305, 313, 391, 211 395, 400 Schwitters, Kurt, 132, 133, 164 Elizabeth Bishop (1966), xxx, 107, 116, 392, Seaver, Robert, xxiii, xxv 400 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 221, 324–25, 329, 331, Still Alice (ﬁlm, 2014), 9 332 Suarez-Toste, Ernesto, 296 “Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Sullivan, Harry Stack, 250, 251, 252 Makes,” 324 Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry, Sewanee Review, xxvi, 391 251

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Summers, Joseph and UT, xxxi, 39, 44, Vendler, Helen, 89, 117, 195, 308, 338, 259, 330 385, 405 surrealism, 127, 128, 131, 132, 156, 163–66, Victorianism, 149 167 the Victorians, 97, 105, 149, 155, 175 surrealism of everyday life, 31, 107, 131, 167, 180, Victorian poetry, 8, 85, 86, 92, 155 245, 298 Villas Boas, Claudio, 270 the surrealists, 49, 54, 56, 132, 164, 165, 166, 168, Vinicius de Moraes, 198, 205 296, 341, See also visual art “Sonnet of Intimacy,” 205 Swenson, May, xxvii, xxix, 4, 5, 8, 11, 121, 242, 253, Black Orpheus, 205 314, 369n14, 381, 391 visual art, 123, 126, 131, 133, 164, See also Sylvester, J.J., 85–87 surrealism:the surrealists The Laws of Verse (1870), 85 Armory exhibition (1913), 126–27, 216–17, symbolism, 156, 245 225, 260 symbolists, 54, 55, 56, 297 as subject, 9, 132, 164, 385 Bishop as painter, 7, 9, 132 Tanaka, Yuki, 351 East Martello Tower exhibition, xxxiii Tennyson, Alfred, 1, 8, 149, 151, 156, Tibor de Nagy Gallery exhibition, xxxiv 177 Museum of Modern Art, 111, 127, 129, 134 “The Lady of Shalott” (1832, 1842), 151, Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 83 316–18, 387 Thain, Marion, 83 Wagley, Charles, 267, 270, 271 The Blue Pencil, xxiii Amazon Town: A Study of Man in the The Kenyon Review, xxx, 122, 206, 361, Tropics, 270 401 Webern, Anton (composer), 234 The Miscellany News (Vassar College), xxiv, Wehr, Wesley (student of EB), 1, 234 175, 303 Welles, Orson The New Republic, xii, 213 O Processo (The Trial, 1962), 180 The New York Times Magazine, 74, 75, Wheeler Sheehan, Rhoda, 3, 354 342 White, Katherine, 19, 107, 389 The New Yorker, xxvii, xxviii, 4, 8, 12, 40, 71, 88, Wieland, Liza 107, 157, 189, 216, 217, 218, 261, 270, 319, Paris, 7 A.M. (2019), 405 336, 351, 354, 389, 401 Wilbur, Richard, xxvii, 171, 256 The Owl (ﬁrst publications), xxiii Williams, Tennessee, 59, 63 The Vassarion, xxiv Williams, William Carlos, xxvii, 126, 175, The Wallace Stevens Journal (1995 Special 176, 410 Issue), 378 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 392 Thomas, Dylan, xxvii, xxviii Wölfﬂin, Heinrich Tóibín, Colm, 12, 364 The Principles of Modern Art, 129–30 translation, 118–19, 122–24, 198 Woolf, Virginia, 341, 385 translations, 54, 75, 117–18, 119–22, 123, 182, 198, Three Guineas, 385 199–200, 202, 204, 207, 234, 241, 268, Wordsworth, William, 4, 8, 10, 84, 85, 87, 149, 398, 399, 400, 401 152, 153–55 translator, Bishop as, 73, 95, 99, 101, 116–20, 122, “Elegiac Stanzas,” 155 123, 199, 200, 205 “I wandered lonely as a Cloud,” 154 Travisano, Thomas, 12, 71, 141, 142, 164, 167, 177, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (1802–3), 85, 87, 153 221, 249, 303, 305, 329 “Stepping Westward,” 153 Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of “The Tables Turned,” 347 Elizabeth Bishop (2019), 76 “Tintern Abbey,” 153 Poems (1815), 84 University of Michigan Press, 398 The Excursion Books II and III, 155 The Prelude, 10 Valdes, Gregorio, 121 World War I, xxi, 174, 176 Valéry, Paul, 55, 291, 299 World War II, xxv, xxvi, 174, 176, 217, Vaz de Caminha, Pero, 95 293

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Xiaojing, Zhou, 362 “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” 31–32 Xingu River, xxix, 270 “Sailing to Byzantium,” 368 Young, Kevin Yaddo Writers Colony, xxvii, 112, “East Jesus,” 405 119 Yeats, W. B., 31, 113 Zona, Kirsten Hotelling, 223, 338, 342, 343, 366