Editing Elizabeth Bishop (section)

==Later life==
Bishop lectured in higher education for a number of years starting in the 1970s when her inheritance began to run out.<ref>Schwartz, Tony. "[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A16F63F5C11728DDDA10894D8415B898BF1D3&scp=1&sq=Elizabeth%20Bishop%20Won%20A%20Pulitzer%20for%20Poetry%20and%20Taught%20At%20Harvard&st=cse Elizabeth Bishop Won A Pulitzer for Poetry and Taught At Harvard.]"  ''[[The New York Times]]'' October 8, 1979: B13 Retrieved April 25, 2008</ref> For a short time she taught at the [[University of Washington]], before teaching at [[Harvard University]] for seven years. She spent several summers near the end of her life on the island of  [[North Haven, Maine]]. She taught at [[New York University]], before finishing at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. She commented, "I don't think I believe in writing courses at all, it's true, children sometimes write wonderful things, paint wonderful pictures, but I think they should be discouraged."<ref Name="ParisR"/>

[[File:ElizabethBishopHouse2009.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Bishop House]]
In 1971 Bishop began a relationship with Alice Methfessel, who became her literary executor.<ref Name="Hilbert">{{cite web |last1=Hilbert |first1=Ernest |author1-link=Ernest Hilbert |title=Bold Type: Essay on Elizabeth Bishop |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0900/bishop/essay.html |website=Bold Type |publisher=[[Random House]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602115320/http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0900/bishop/essay.html |archive-date=2 June 2008 |date=2002 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Never a prolific writer, Bishop noted that she would begin many projects and leave them unfinished. Two years after publishing her last book, ''Geography III'' (1977),<ref Name="ParisR"/> she died of a [[cerebral aneurysm]] in her apartment at [[Lewis Wharf]], Boston, and is buried in [[Hope Cemetery (Worcester, Massachusetts)]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 3979–3980). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> Her requested epitaph, the last two lines from her poem "The Bight" — "All the untidy activity continues, / awful but cheerful" — was added, along with her inscription, to the family monument in 1997, on the occasion of the Elizabeth Bishop Conference and Poetry Festival in Worcester.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1995 Walking Tour:32 Elizabeth Bishop|url=http://www.friendsofhopecemetery.com/1995tour.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511000804/http://www.friendsofhopecemetery.com/1995tour.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 11, 2008|publisher=Friends of Hope Cemetery}}</ref>

After her death, the [[Elizabeth Bishop House]], an artists' retreat in [[Great Village, Nova Scotia]], was dedicated to her memory. Vassar College Library acquired her literary and personal papers in 1981. Her personal correspondence and manuscripts appear in numerous other literary collections in American research libraries.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Montgomery|first=Paul L.|date=December 13, 1981|title=VASSAR'S LIBRARY ACQUIRES PAPERS OF ELIZABETH BISHOP (Published 1981)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/13/nyregion/vassar-s-library-acquires-papers-of-elizabeth-bishop.html|access-date=November 14, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>