Elizabeth Bishop - Prose

“Then Came the Poor” ( Con Spirito, February 1933)

From “Time’s Andromedas” ( Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies, 1933)

“Gerard Manley Hopkins” ( Vassar Review, February 1934)

“The Last Animal” ( Vassar Review, April 1934)

“Dimensions for a Novel” ( Vassar Journal of Undergraduate Studies, May 1934)

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A

Abreu, Casimiro de

Adams, Franklin P.

Aesop

Aiken, Conrad

“Aleijadinho” (Antônio Francisco Lisboa)

Alencar, José de

Alves, Castro: “The Slave Ship”

Alves, Rodrigues

Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

“Anaphora” (EB)

Andrade, Mário de; Hallucinated City

Andrade, Oswald de; Brazilwood; “Last Ride of a Tubercular through the City by Streetcar”

Annie Allen (Brooks): reviewed by EB

Anthology of Brazilian Poets of the Romantic Past

Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry: Introduction by EB

Anthon, Kate

Appletree, Gwendolyn

“Armadillo, The”

Armstrong, Phyllis

Artists’ Gallery, New York

Assis, Armando

“As We Like It: Miss Moore and the Delight of Imitation” (EB)

As You Like It (Shakespeare)

“At the Fishhouses” (EB)

Auden, W. H.; “A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute” (EB, on Auden); “Refugee Blues”; “Spain”

Azevedo, Álvares de

B

Babel, Isaac

Baez, Joan

Bahia, Brazil

Ballad of Reading Gaol (Wilde)

Bandeira, Manuel; Anthology of Brazilian Poets of the Romantic Past; Ash of the Hours

Banville, Théodore de

“Baptism, The” (EB)

Barbosa, Rui

Bardot, Brigitte

Barnes, Djuna

Barton, Emma

Batista do Vale, João

Baudelaire, Charles; Le Balcon

Beach, Sylvia

Beerbohm, Max: Zuleika Dobson

Belém, Brazil

Belitt, Ben

Bell, Alexander Graham

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Benicio de Loyola, Manoel

Berhing, Edith

Berlin, the City, and the Court (Laforgue)

Bernanos, George

Bernardes, Artur

Bernardes, Sérgio

Berryman, John

“Bight, The” (EB)

Bilac, Olavo

Biographia Literaria

Biribiri, Brazil

Bishop, Elizabeth: biographical information; COLLECTED POEMS MENTIONED IN HER PROSE WRITINGS: A Cold Spring; Questions of Travel; CORRESPONDENCE: EB AND ANNE STEVENSON; EARLY PROSE: “Dimensions for a Novel”; “Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Timing in His Poetry”; “The Last Animal”; “A Mouse and Mice”; “On Being Alone”; “Then Came the Poor”; “The Thumb”; From “Time’s Andromedas”; ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND TRIBUTES: “A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute: W. H. Auden”; “As We Like It: Miss Moore and the Delight of Imitation”; “Flannery O’Connor: 1925–1964”; “Gallery Note for Wesley Wehr”; “An Inadequate Tribute” (Randall Jarrell); “Introduction to An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry ”; “Introduction to The Diary of ‘Helena Morley’ ”; “‘I Was But Just Awake’” (Walter de la Mare); “Love from Emily: Review of Emily Dickinson’s Letters”; “The Manipulation of Mirrors” (Jules Laforgue); “A New Capital, Aldous Huxley, and Some Indians”; “On the Railroad Named Delight”; “Review of Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks”; “Review of The Riddle of Emily Dickinson ” (Rebecca Patterson); “Review of XAIPE: 71 Poems by E. E. Cummings”; Robert Lowell’s Life Studies (jacket blurb); “A Sentimental Tribute” (Marianne Moore); “Some Notes on Robert Lowell”; “What the Young Man Said to the Psalmist” (Wallace Fowlie); “‘Writing poetry is an unnatural act…’”; POEMS MENTIONED IN HER PROSE WRITINGS: “Anaphora”; “The Armadillo”; “At the Fishhouses”; “The Bight”; “Brazil January 1”; “Cape Breton”; “Chemin de Fer”; “Cirque d’Hiver”; “The Colder the Air”; “A Cold Spring”; “Cootchie”; “Exchanging Hats”; “Faustina”; “The Fish”; “Florida”; “From the Country to the City”; “The Gentleman of Shalott”; “The Imaginary Iceberg”; “Insomnia”; “Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore”; “Jerónimo’s House”; “Large Bad Picture”; “Love Lies Sleeping”; “The Man-Moth”; “Manners (for a Child of 1918)”; “Manuelzinho”; “The Map”; “A Miracle for Breakfast”; “The Monument”; “Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance”; “Paris, 7 A.M.”; “Quai D’Orleans”; “Questions of Travel”; “Rain Towards Morning”; “The Riverman”; “Roosters”; “Valentines”; “Varick Street”; “Visits to St. Elizabeths”; “Wading at Wellfleet”; “The Weed”; STORIES AND MEMOIRS: “The Baptism”; “The Country Mouse”; “Efforts of Affection: A Memoir of Marianne Moore”; “The Farmer’s Children”; “Gregorio Valdes, 1879–1939”; “Gwendolyn”; “The Housekeeper”; “In Prison”; “In the Village”; “Memories of Uncle Neddy”; “Mercedes Hospital”; “Primer Class”; “The Sea and Its Shore”; “To the Botequim & Back”; “A Trip to Vigia”; “The U.S.A. School of Writing”; TRANSLATIONS: “From The Diary of ‘Helena Morley’ ” (excerpt); stories by Clarice Lispector

Bishop, Gertrude Bulmer (EB’s mother)

Bishop, J. W. (EB’s paternal grandfather)

Bishop, William Thomas (EB’s father)

Bissier, Julius

Black Orpheus (movie)

Blake, William

Blyth, R. H.

Bogan, Louise

Bolislavsky, Richard: Acting

Bolívar, Simón

Bonifácio, José

Booth, Philip

Borden, Fanny

Bosco, Saint John

Bowers, Grace Bulmer (EB’s aunt Grace)

Brandt, Carl

Brant, Alice Dayrell (“Helena Morley”): in excerpt from The Diary of “Helena Morley”; in Introduction to The Diary of “Helena Morley”

Brant, Dr. Augusto Mario

Brasil, Emanuel

Brasília

Brazil: agricultural economy; architecture in; arts and handcrafts; background; Carnival in Rio de Janeiro; characteristics of Brazilians; Christmas in; coffee production; colonial rule under Portugal; currency in; discovery by Cabral; geography; government after fall of monarchy; history; inflation in; “Introduction to An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry ”; language in; mineral resources; modernism; monarchy in; music in; “A New Capital, Aldous Huxley, and Some Indians”; “On the Railroad Named Delight”; painting in; poetry in; race relations in; relationship with United States; rubber production; sports in; staple diet; sugar production; war against Paraguay; women’s rights in

Brazil (Time-Life World Library)

“Brazil, January 1” (EB)

Brazilwood (Oswald de Andrade)

Brecheret, Victor

Brecht, Bertolt

Breton, André

Bridges, Robert

“Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute, A” (EB, on Auden)

Brooks, Gwendolyn: Annie Allen

Brown, Ashley

Browning, Robert

Buber, Martin

Bulmer, Aunt Grace, see Bowers, Grace Bulmer (EB’s aunt Grace)

Bulmer, Aunt Mary, see Ross, Mary Bulmer (EB’s aunt Mary)

Bulmer, Aunt Maud

Bulmer, Gertrude, see Bishop, Gertrude Bulmer (EB’s mother)

Bulmer, Uncle Arthur