Prose by Bishop, Elizabeth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Contents Editor’s Note Stories and Memoirs

The Baptism The Sea and Its Shore In Prison Gregorio Valdes, 1879–1939 Mercedes Hospital The Farmer’s Children The Housekeeper Gwendolyn In the Village Primer Class The Country Mouse The U.S.A. School of Writing A Trip to Vigia Efforts of Affection: A Memoir of Marianne Moore To the Botequim & Back Memories of Uncle Neddy

Brazil

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4: The Three Capitals Chapter 5: Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Chapter 6: Unself-conscious Arts Chapter 7 Chapter 8: Groups and Individuals Chapter 9: The Republic Chapter 10

Essays, Reviews, and Tributes

As We Like It: Miss Moore and the Delight of Imitation Review of Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks Review of XAIPE: 71 Poems by E. E. Cummings Love from Emily Review of The Riddle of Emily Dickinson What the Young Man Said to the Psalmist The Manipulation of Mirrors Introduction to The Diary of “Helena Morley” A New Capital, Aldous Huxley, and Some Indians “I Was But Just Awake” Robert Lowell’s Life Studies “Writing poetry is an unnatural act…” Some Notes on Robert Lowell A Sentimental Tribute Flannery O’Connor: 1925–1964 On the Railroad Named Delight Gallery Note for Wesley Wehr An Inadequate Tribute Introduction to An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry A Brief Reminiscence and a Brief Tribute

Translations

From The Diary of “Helena Morley” Stories by Clarice Lispector

The Smallest Woman in the World A Hen Marmosets

Correspondence with Anne Stevenson, 1963–1965 Appendix: Early Prose

On Being Alone A Mouse and Mice The Thumb Then Came the Poor From “Time’s Andromedas” Gerard Manley Hopkins: Notes on Timing in His Poetry The Last Animal Dimensions for a Novel

Notes on the Texts Index Also by Elizabeth Bishop Copyright