The Hand of the poet

Description:

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.

subjects: 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 library

Places: New York,  New York (State)