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Elizabeth Bishop

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Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. [1]

98 relations: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Americans, Arnaut Daniel, Boston, Brazil, Bryn Mawr College, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Confessional poetry, Derek Walcott, Eleanor Clark, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Bishop House, Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), Ernest Hemingway, Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Great Village, Guggenheim Fellowship, Harriet Monroe, Harvard University, Helen Vendler, Hope Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts), Ingram Merrill Foundation, Intracranial aneurysm, James Merrill, João Cabral de Melo Neto, John Berryman, Kathleen Spivack, Key West, Latin America, Lewis Wharf, Library of America, Library of Congress, List of winners of the Academy of American Poets' Fellowship, Literary magazine, Lloyd Schwartz, Lota de Macedo Soares, Louise Crane, Marianne Moore, Mary McCarthy (author), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Meghan O'Rourke, Mexico, Michael Sledge, Natick, Massachusetts, National Book Award, National Book Award for Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Foundation, ..., Neustadt International Prize for Literature, New York City, New York State Writers Hall of Fame, New York University, North Haven, Maine, Northwest, Washington, D.C., NPR, Octavio Paz, Order of Rio Branco, Pauline Pfeiffer, Petrópolis, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Questions of Travel, Randall Jarrell, Reaching for the Moon (2013 film), Revere, Massachusetts, Robert Browning, Robert Giroux, Robert Lowell, Samuel Ashley Brown, Santos, São Paulo, Sarah Ruhl, Saskia Hamilton, Saugus High School (Massachusetts), Saugus, Massachusetts, Sestina, Shelley Memorial Award, Swampscott, Massachusetts, Tenement, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Thomas Carlyle, United States Poet Laureate, University of Washington, Vaccine, Vassar College, Wall Street Crash of 1929, Walnut Hill School, Weill Cornell Medicine, Woodberry Poetry Room, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1957 in literature, 1968 in literature, 1984 in literature, 1996 in literature. Expand index (48 more) »

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Arnaut Daniel

Arnaut Daniel (fl. 1180–1200) was an Occitan troubadour of the 12th century, praised by Dante as a "the best smith" (miglior fabbro) and called a "grand master of love" (gran maestro d'amore) by Petrarch.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College (Welsh) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, 1902 – August 17, 1987) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time.

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Confessional poetry

Confessional poetry or "Confessionalism" is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the 1950s.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott, KCSL, OBE, OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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Eleanor Clark

Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett,; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

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Elizabeth Bishop House

The Elizabeth Bishop House, also known as the Bulmer House, is an historic single-family house that today is used as an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia.

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Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)

Elizabeth Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)

Georgetown is a historic neighborhood and a commercial and entertainment district located in northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River.

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Great Village

Great Village is a rural community of approximately 500 people located along Trunk 2 and the north shore of Cobequid Bay in Colchester County, Nova Scotia.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Helen Vendler

Helen Hennessy Vendler (born April 30, 1933) is an American literary critic and is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

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Hope Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts)

Hope Cemetery is an historic rural cemetery at 119 Webster Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Ingram Merrill Foundation

The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.

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Intracranial aneurysm

Intracranial aneurysm, also known as brain aneurysm, is a cerebrovascular disorder in which weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery or vein causes a localized dilation or ballooning of the blood vessel.

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James Merrill

For the South Carolina politician see James Merrill (politician) James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

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João Cabral de Melo Neto

João Cabral de Melo Neto, (January 9, 1920 – October 9, 1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism.

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John Berryman

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma.

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Kathleen Spivack

Kathleen Spivack, née Drucker (born 1938 in New York, NY) is an American poet and author.

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Key West

Key West (Cayo Hueso) is an island and city in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent, at the southwesternmost end of the roadway through the Florida Keys in the state of Florida, United States.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Lewis Wharf

Lewis Wharf is a showpiece of waterfront urban renewal in Boston's historic North End.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of winners of the Academy of American Poets' Fellowship

List of winners of the Academy Fellowship is awarded annually for "distinguished poetic achievement" at mid-career, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense.

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Lloyd Schwartz

Lloyd Schwartz (born November 29, 1941) is an American poet, and the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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Lota de Macedo Soares

Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares (March 16, 1910 – September 25, 1967) was a well-connected Brazilian woman who became a well-known landscape designer and architect.

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Louise Crane

Louise Crane (November 11, 1913 – October 20, 1997), a prominent American philanthropist.

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor.

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Mary McCarthy (author)

Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Meghan O'Rourke

Meghan O'Rourke (born 1976 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American nonfiction writer, poet and critic.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Michael Sledge

Michael Sledge is an American writer.

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Natick, Massachusetts

Natick is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Poetry

The National Book Award for Poetry is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens.

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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York State Writers Hall of Fame

The New York State Writers Hall of Fame or NYS Writers Hall of Fame is a project established in 2010 by the Empire State Center for the Book and the Empire State Book Festival and headquartered at the New York State Library in Albany, New York.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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North Haven, Maine

North Haven is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States, in Penobscot Bay.

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Northwest, Washington, D.C.

Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat.

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Order of Rio Branco

The Order of Rio Branco (Ordem de Rio Branco) is an honorific order of Brazil instituted by decree 51.697 of February 5, 1963.

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Pauline Pfeiffer

Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (July 22, 1895 – October 1, 1951) was an American journalist, and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.

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Petrópolis

Petrópolis, also known as The Imperial City, is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil, located northeast of Rio de Janeiro.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Questions of Travel

Questions of Travel is a 2012 novel by Australian author Michelle de Kretser.

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Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.

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Reaching for the Moon (2013 film)

Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras, "Rare Flowers") is a 2013 Brazilian biographical drama film directed by Bruno Barreto.

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Revere, Massachusetts

Revere is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, located approximately from downtown Boston.

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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Robert Giroux

Robert Giroux (April 8, 1914 – September 5, 2008) was an American book editor and publisher.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Samuel Ashley Brown

Samuel Ashley Brown (December 19, 1923 – June 24, 2011) was a professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina who taught English and comparative literature.

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Santos, São Paulo

Santos (Saints) is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas.

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Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist.

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Saskia Hamilton

Saskia Hamilton (born 1967 Washington, D.C.) is an American poet.

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Saugus High School (Massachusetts)

Saugus High School is an American public secondary school located in Saugus, Massachusetts.

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Saugus, Massachusetts

Saugus is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area.

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Sestina

A sestina (Old Occitan: cledisat; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi.

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Shelley Memorial Award

The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Swampscott, Massachusetts

Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore.

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Tenement

A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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United States Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease.

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Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.

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Walnut Hill School

Walnut Hill School for the Arts is an independent boarding school for the arts located in Natick, Massachusetts, United States.

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Weill Cornell Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine is the biomedical research unit and medical school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university.

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Woodberry Poetry Room

The George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room is a special collections room of the library system at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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1957 in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1957.

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1968 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1968.

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1984 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1984.

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1996 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1996.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop

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