The Hand of the poet
poems and papers in manuscript : the New York Public Library Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
by Berg Collection., Rodney Phillips, Susan Benesch, Kenneth Benson, and Barbara Bergeron
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Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented.
Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W. H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks" - make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem. Illustrated with over three hundred black-and-white photographs, The Hand of the Poet is for those new to poetry as well as those for whom poetry has been a life-long passion.
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American Manuscripts, American poetry, Berg Collection, Catalogs, English Manuscripts, English poetry, Manuscripts, Manuscripts, American, Manuscripts, English, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Poetry texts & anthologies, Reference, Exhibition Catalogs, Poetry, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Anthologies (multiple authors), English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry / General, New York, New York (State), Manuscripts, exhibitions, New york public libraryPlaces
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The Hand of the poet: poems and papers in manuscript : the New York Public Library Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
1997, Rizzoli, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript
March 15, 1997, Rizzoli International Publications
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-331) and index.
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