美國(guó)詩(shī)人伊麗莎白·畢肖普

1、Elizabeth Bishop 伊麗莎白畢肖普(1911-1979) Elizabeth Bishop (8 February 1911 6 October 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop H

2、ouse is an artists retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia dedicated to her memory. She is considered one of the most important and distinguished American poets of the 20th century. Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was born in 1911 in Worcester, Massachusetts. When she was very young her father died,

3、 her mother was committed to a mental asylum, and she was sent to live with her grandparents in Nova Scotia. She earned a bachelors degree from Vassar College in 1934. She was independently wealthy, and from 1935 to 1937 she spent time traveling to France, Spain, North Africa, Ireland, and Italy and

4、 then settled in Key West, Florida, for four years. Her poetry is filled with descriptions of her travels and the scenery which surrounded her, as with the Florida poems in her first book of verse, North and South, published in 1946. Life experienceCareerPoet, author of prose, and translator. Librar

5、y of Congress, Washington, DC, consultant in poetry, 1949-50, honorary consultant in American Letters, beginning in 1958; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, instructor, beginning 1970.Literary style and identityIn contrast to this confessional style involving large amounts of self-exposure, Bishops

6、style of writing, though it sometimes involved sparse details from her personal life, was known for its highly detailed and objective, distant point of view and for its reticence on the sordid subject matter that obsessed her contemporaries. In contrast to a poet like Lowell, when Bishop wrote about

7、 details and people from her own life (like she did in her story about her childhood and her mentally unstable mother in In the Village), she always used discretion. Poetry collections North & South (1946) Poems: North & South. A Cold Spring (1955)winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA Cold Spring (1956) Que

8、stions of Travel (1965) The Complete Poems (1969) winner of the National Book AwardGeography III, (1976) The Complete Poems: 19271979 (1983) Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments (2006) One ArtOne Art by Elizabeth BishopThe art of losing isnt hard to master;so many

9、 things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster.Lose something every day. Accept the flusterof lost door keys, the hour badly spent.The art of losing isnt hard to master.Then practice losing farther, losing faster:places, and names, and where it was you meantto travel. N

10、one of these will bring disaster.I lost my mothers watch. And look! my last, ornext-to-last, of three loved houses went.The art of losing isnt hard to master.I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasnt a disaster.-Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shant have lied. Its evident the art of losings not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.失去的藝術(shù)（美）失去的藝術(shù)（美） 伊麗莎白伊麗莎白畢曉普畢曉普失去這門(mén)藝術(shù)并不難精通；這么多事物都有意消失它們的失去也就不是災(zāi)禍。每天都失去一些。接受丟掉房門(mén)鑰匙帶來(lái)的一小時(shí)慌亂。失去這門(mén)藝術(shù)并不難精通。然后試著丟得更