The Hand of the poet
Berg Collection., Rodney Phillips, Susan Benesch, Kenneth Benson · 1997
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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.
Book details
- Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780847819584
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