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Bishop, John Peale

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Bishop, John Peale (1892–1944), West Virginia‐born author, lived on Cape Cod, whose poems are collected in Green Fruit (1917); The Undertaker's Garland (1922), written with Edmund Wilson; Now with His Love (1933); and Minute Particulars (1936). Many Thousands Gone (1931) is a book of stories, and Act of Darkness (1935) is a novel. Bishop is said to be the prototype of Tom D'Invilliers in This Side of Paradise. His Collected Essays and his Collected Poems were published in 1948. His correspondence with Allen Tate was printed in 1981.

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Bishop, John Peale

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Bishop, John Peale (1892–1944), American poet and story writer, educated at Princeton with E. Wilson and F. S. Fitzgerald. His Collected Essays and Collected Poems appeared in 1948.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bishop, John Peale." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bishop, John Peale." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BishopJohnPeale.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Bishop, John Peale." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BishopJohnPeale.html

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