Find your favorite... Related briefings Susanne Antonetta Grace Paley David Allan Evans Have a comment? Print Education John Peale Bishop (May 21, 1892 - April 4, 1944) was an American poet and man of letters. Bishop was born in Charles Town, West Virginia, to a family from New England, and attended school in Hagerstown, Maryland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peale_Bishop John Peale Bishop, who attended Princeton when F. Scott Fitzgerald was there, wrote an elegy, "Hours," about Fitzgerald. http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/Gatsby.html Fame http://www.weneedavacation.com/Cape/4612.htm Work Bishop, John Peale '17 (1892-1944) who is remembered mainly as a friend of Scott Fitzgerald '17 and Edmund Wilson '16 deserves to be better known for his own contribution to American letters. Having postponed entering college for three years because of illness, he was twenty-one when he came to Princeton from Charles Town, West Virginia. ... Asking what the example of France could mean for America, he answered, `It means that we must find a way to reconcile our own past with the vast past of Western civilization.' Perhaps the greatest praise we can give John Peale Bishop is to say that in his own devotion to the values of art, he helped American literature take a step forward in achieving that reconciliation.'' In 1948 Wilson edited Bishop's collected essays, and in the same year, Allen Tate, another close friend, edited, with a preface and personal memoir, his collected poems. http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/bishop_john_peale.html | |
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