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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; 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 ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Jacket has edgewear, chipped at tip, closed tear on fold. Boards have a bumped corner. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. No Jacket. Wear to spine. Title strip cracking off spine. Binding is otherwise sound though slightly worn. 6 issues half-leatherbound as one covering January - June,1853.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. iv, 703, [1] p., 1 leaf of a plate showing the residence of J.P. Kennedy, Ellicott's Mills, Md., 1 double-page wood-engraved view of New York City: in-text illustrations, map; 24 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-stamped title in second compartment: "Putnam's Magazine vol. 1." All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Edited and with contributions by Charles Frederick Briggs, George William Curtis and Parke Godwin. George Putnam sought to focus on American writers and American literature in the magazine he established in 1853. This volume includes first appearance of two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Galgano, the latter a verse translation of a story from Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino; The Fountain of Youth by James Russell Lowell; Old Ironsides by James Fenimore Cooper; Ornithomanes by Henry William Herbert; The Living Corpse, a Poe-inspired story by the suicidal William North; and three parts of Henry David Thoreau's Excursion to Canada (published, with additonal material, in 1866 as A Yankee in Canada). The focus on American writers includes Briggs' reflections on the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Uncle Tomitudes; Fitz-James O'Brien in Our Young Authors on Herman Melville; and The Student Life of Daniel Webster by Edwin D. Sanborn. This volume also includes both Henry James, Sr.'s declaration of the inferiority of women in his Woman and the "Woman's Movement," and contributions by women writers--Virginia in a Novel Form by Mrs. Hicks (Rebecca Brodnax Hicks (1823-1870)), who published The Kaleidoscope, a weekly newspaper in Petersburg, Va.; Mary Spears by Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818-1877), author of The Women of the American Revolution; and Midnight Sun by Fredrika Bremer. It features articles about Cuba, Japan, and Honolulu; the occult (Modern "Spiritualism" by Horace Greeley); Ericsson's caloric ship; New York City in Clarence Cook's series New-York Daguerreotyped and in The Benevolent Institutions of New-York by Charles Loring Brace. It also includes the popular Have We a Bourbon Among Us? and The Bourbon Question by Charles H. Hanson, who argued that the Rev. Eleazar Williams, a missionary to the Indians, was actually the dauphin, Charles Louis, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. In Very Good Condition: rubbed, most heavily at corners, but solid; occasional light foxing; a few sections of pages have browned, but most have not; clean and tight.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Putnam s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art Vol. 1, January June, 1853 Contains first print appearance of part of Henry David Thoreau s later 1866 volume A Yankee in Canada . New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1853. Edited and with contributions by Charles Frederick Briggs, George William Curtis and Parke Godwin. George Putnam sought to focus on American writers and American literature in the magazine he established in 1853. Bound together, this first volume of Putnam's Monthly Magazine includes: Fredrick Bremer, Midnight Sun James Fenimore Cooper: Old Ironsides Elizabeth Ellet, Mary Spears Horace Greeley: Modern Spiritualism (pg. 59) Charles H. Hanson, The Bourbon Question (in which Hanson argues that the Rev. Eleazr Williams, a missionary to the Native Americans, was actually the dauphin, Charles Louis, son of Louis XVI and Maria Antoinett). Henry William Herbert: Ornithomanes . Rebecca Brodnax Hicks, Virginia in a novel form Henry Wadsworth Longfellow First Appearance of two poems: The Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Galgano(a verse translation of a story from Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino). Henry James, Sr., Women s Movement James Russell Lowell: The Fountain of Youth Herman Melville: Our Young Authors There is also an article in this edition reviewing Melville s writings, praising Typee and Mardi, but harshly criticizing Pierre, and Moby Dick, citing their inexcusable insanity . William North: The Living Corpse Henry David Thoreau: Three parts of An Excursion to Canada , later published with additional material in 1866 as "A Yankee in Canada . (pg. 54, pg. 179, and pg. 321) Condition: Hardcover. Brown cloth covered embossed boards show varying shelf wear and scuffs. ~1" crack in cover and spine joint; bumping and exposure of corner boards. Some rubbing to gold gilt writing on spine. Gilt remains clear and readable. Inside, the binding is good. Varying degrees of foxing throughout. The tops of the last four pages are torn, not affecting text. Please see photos. More photos available on request.