John peale bishop biography

Born in what is now Charleston, West Virginia, in 1892, Bishop was raised in a well-to-do family where artistic talents were encouraged and cultivated.
John Peale Bishop (May 21, 1892 – April 4, 1944) was an American poet and man of letters.
American poet, novelist, and critic.

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John Peale Bishop Biography

Americanpoet, born in West Virginia, educated at Princeton. As a student he began lasting friendships with Edmund Wilson, his collaborator on The Undertaker's Garland (1922), a humorous miscellany of verse and prose about death, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is said to have taken Bishop as the model for Tim D'Invilliers in This Side of Paradise (1920). Althoug many of his contemporaries admired the lyrical concentration and classical precision of his verse, he published only three principal collections, Green Fruit (1917), Now with His Love (1933), and Minute Particulars (1936). The last contains much of his best work, written after he took up residence at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1934 upon returning from France where he had lived since the early 1920s; ‘A Subject of Sea-Change’ is perhaps his finest poem, its compelling philosophical eloquence sustained with maritime imagery of rich particularity. His Virginia background is reflected in much of his writing, which is deeply informed by his elegiac sense of the passing of the pat

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John Peale Bishop

Famously she descended, her red hair
Unbound and bronzed by sea-reflections, caught
Crinkled with sea-pearls. The fine slender taut
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NIGHT and we heard heavy cadenced hoofbeats
Of troops departing; the last cohorts left
By the North Gate. That night some listened late
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LOCK your bedroom doors with terror.
Comb your hair between two lights.
In the gold Venetian chamber
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FIAMETTA walks under the quincebuds
In a gown the color of flowers;
Her small breasts shine through the silken stuff
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Famously she descended, her red hair
Unbound and bronzed by sea-reflections, caught
Crinkled with sea-pearls. The fine slender taut
Knees that let down her feet upon the air,

Young breasts, slim flanks and golden quarries were
Odder than when the young distraught
Unknown Venetian, painting her portrait, thought
He'd not imagined what he painted there.

And I too commerced with that golden cloud:
Lipped her delicious hands and had my ease
Faring fantastically, perversely proud.

All loveliness demands our courtesies.
Since she was dead I praise

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John Peale Bishop

American poet

John Peale Bishop (May 21, 1892 – April 4, 1944) was an American poet and man of letters.

Biography

Bishop was born in Charles Town, West Virginia, to a family from New England, and attended school in Hagerstown, Maryland and Mercersburg Academy. At 18, Bishop fell victim to a severe illness and temporarily lost his sight. He entered Princeton University in 1913, at age 21, where he became friends with Edmund Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald and was the editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine.^[1]^[2] He graduated from Princeton in 1917 and served with the army for two years in Europe. He was the model for the character Thomas Parke D'Invilliers in Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise.^[1]

Upon returning to the United States, he wrote poetry as well as essays and reviews for Vanity Fair in New York City. In 1922 he married Margaret Hutchins, and they soon moved to France, where they lived until 1933, interrupted by a stint for Paramount Pictures in New York (1925–26). While in France they bo