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One Art
Letters
1995
First Published
4.40
Average Rating
704
Number of Pages
From several thousand letters, written over fifty years - from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979 - Robert Giroux has selected over five hundred and has written a detailed and informative introduction. One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, displaying to the full the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great poet.
Avg Rating
4.40
Number of Ratings
454
5 STARS
58%
4 STARS
28%
3 STARS
12%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author

Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop
Author · 21 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956. and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. She is considered one of the most important and distinguished American poets of the 20th century.

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