Elizabeth Bishop's Biography and Background (86)

What college wdid Elizabeth Bishop attend?

Vassar College

During what year did Elizabeth Bishop receive a compliment from an English professor?

Freshmanyear

What did Bishop’s English professor write about her?

That she was “evidently doomed to be a poet”

Where did Bishop’s English professor write about her fate?

On her midterm exam

Bishop’s professor’s comment can best be described as _____

wry

Bishop’s professor’s comment is a reference to what?

Bisiop’s restless, inquisitive behavior as a student

In what year is Elizabeth depicted among other Vassar students in the USAD resource guide?

1934

Elizabeth Bishop’s photo in 1934 is with members of what?

Vassar’s yearbook

What organization did Bishop serve as editor-in-chief of at Vassar College?

The Yearbook

Bishop developed from a ______ but _______ student into one of the most _______ and ______ poets of the _______ century

Precocious but intelligent; celebrated and influential; twentieth

What awards would Bishop go on to win?

Dozens of significant poetry prizes including a pullitzer

Where is Bishop noted for teaching?

Cambridge and Harvard

What is the nationality of Bishop’s father?

American

What is the nationality of Bishop’s mother?

Canadian

When was Bishop born?

1911

What was Bishop’s early life married by?

Traumatic losses and frequent upheavals

How old was Bishop when her father died?

8 months old

How old was Bishop when her mother was permanently institutionalized? Why was she institutionalized?

5 years old;a series of severemental health crisis

Bishop was shuttled between family members where?

Massachusetts and Nova Scotia

Which of Bishop’s famous short stories demonstrates her early experiences of being uprooted?

“In the Village”

What is the genre of “in the Village?”

Short story

What does “In the Village” tell us about Bishop’s experiences being uprooted?

That they influenced her lifelong suspicion of, and simultaneous desire for a secure place called, “home”

Many of Bishop’s popular poems engage with what?

Global travel and the experience of wandering in new or familiar locatiosn

Which of Bishop’s poem collection is about Florida and France?

“North and South”

When was “North and South” published?

1946

When was “North and South” reissued?

1955

What locations is “North and South” about?

Florida and France

What location “questions of Travel” about?

Brazil

When was “Questions of travel” published?

1965

What locations does Bishop’s “Geography III” discuss?

Nova Scotia, London, and Massachusetts

When was “geography III” made?

1976

Which of Bishop’s works aligns with the locations she was shuttled between family as a kid?

“Geography III” (Massachusetts and Nova Scotia)

Bishop’s poems display what regardless of their subjects?

A remarkable capacity for observations especially of common, everyday items

What did Thomas Travisano say about Bishop’s works?

That she often filtered her observation through a “dry and distinctly wicked sense of humor”