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

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Lots of used copies of Yeats at Work on Amazon. I just ordered one for  $1.06.
 
 
In a message dated 11/7/2006 1:10:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
grahamd at ripon.edu writes:

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_ 
(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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