Hints and tips:
...There he could write and receive visitors — a roster of literary lions such as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Eliot, John Berryman and William Carlos Williams....
...It wasn’t ideal to get to Elizabeth Bishop’s old flat in Boston without ensuring in advance that the occupants would be in....
...As I skimmed the pages I was reminded of things I may once have known, for example the poet John Ashbery calling Elizabeth Bishop “the poets’ poets’ poet”....
...A few days before we met, Silvers had sent me Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing”, first published in Harper’s in 1959....
...Of Bishop and Lowell’s near contemporaries, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Randall Jarrell all committed suicide. Others died by the bottle....
...In these decades appeared the best work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Frank O’Hara, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, A.R....
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