The Hand of the poet
Subtitle: poems and papers in manuscript : the New York Public Library Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
By: by Rodney Phillips ... [et al.] ; with essays by Dana Gioia.
Contributors: Phillips, Rodney, 1946-; New York Public Library.
Publisher: Rizzoli; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Berg Collection -- Catalogs; Manuscripts, English -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs; Manuscripts, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- Catalogs; American poetry -- Manuscripts; English poetry -- Manuscripts
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-331) and index.