Bishop, John Peale

Bishop, John Peale

▪ American poet and critic
born May 21, 1892, Charles Town, W.Va., U.S.
died April 4, 1944, Hyannis, Mass.

      American poet, novelist, and critic, a member of the “lost generation” and a close associate of the American expatriate writers in Paris in the 1920s.

      At Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1917, Bishop formed lifelong friendships with Edmund Wilson, the future critic, and with the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald, F. Scott), who depicted Bishop as the highbrow writer Tom D'Invilliers in This Side of Paradise. Bishop published his first volume of verse, Green Fruit, in 1917. After military service in World War I, he was an editor at Vanity Fair magazine in New York City from 1920 to 1922. He married into wealth and traveled throughout Europe. From 1926 to 1933, he lived in France and acquired a deep admiration for French culture. His collection of stories about his native South, Many Thousands Gone (1931), was followed with a volume of poetry, Now with His Love (1933). Act of Darkness, a novel tracing the coming of age of a young man, and Minute Particulars, a collection of verse, both appeared in 1935. He became chief poetry reviewer for The Nation magazine in 1940. That year he published perhaps his finest poem, “The Hours,” an elegy on the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald. His Collected Poems (1948) was edited by the poet Allen Tate and his Collected Essays (1948) by Edmund Wilson.

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