Poets & the Peacock dinner : the literary history of a meal / Lucy McDiarmid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDiarmid, Lucy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922.

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen.

Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929.

Plarr, Victor.

Moore, T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944.

Moore, T. Sturge.

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Yeats, W. B.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Pound, Ezra.

Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962.

Aldington, Richard.

Flint, F. S. (Frank Stuart), 1885-1960.

Flint, F. S.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byron's only granddaughter. In this story of the curious occasion that came to be known as the 'peacock dinner,' immortalized in the famous photograph of the poets standingin a row, Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history derived from intimacies rather than 'isms.' The dinner evolved from

Contents:

Prologue : seven poets and a peacock

Male poets in proximity

Lady Gregory's ideas

Victorian adultery

A woman's sonnets

Alliances and rivalries

The naked muse

"a really important event"

A live tradition

Epilogue : the long peacock dinner.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-103536-X

0-19-878833-9

0-19-103535-1