“Words in Air”: The Letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

The poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell met in 1947 at a New York dinner party held by Randall Jarrell. She was 36 and had just published her first book of poems. He was 30 and had just won a Pulitzer Prize. Later, she wrote that she’d gone to the party with “fear and trembling.”

“Then Lowell arrived and I loved him at first sight. . . .

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-29/books/a-great-poetic-twosome-the-elizabeth-bishop-robert-lowell-letters/