[New-Poetry] Books A Poet Should Own (the list as it stands)

[David Graham]

I've got the Yeats book, too, which was indeed eye-opening.  It's titled
Yeats at Work.  From Ecco Press, edited by Curtis Bradford.  Don't know if
it's still in print.  The heartening thing, for me when I first encountered
it, was the fact that WBY's drafts were awful.  He just kept hammering away
at them until they became great poetry.


On 11/7/06 10:53 AM, "TheOldMole" <tad at opus40.org> wrote:

> I'd include any book that chronicles the early drafts and revisions of the
> work of a poet one admires. I have one of Yeats somewhere on my bookshelves,
> but can't find it. Anyone know the name? The 25th anniversary edition of Howl
> has facsimile pages of the ms. with revisions.
>  
> This isn't a book, but http://englishhistory.net/keats/manuscripts.html has
> facsimiles of Keats' manuscripts, with revisions. I'd also toss in Walter
> Jackson Bate's bio of Keats, which has some good stuff on his work processes.
> Keats' letters, of course.
>>  



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