Description |
xviii, 212 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
ISBN |
9780198788331 paperback |
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9780198722786 hardback |
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0198722788 hardback |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Summary |
An illuminating tale of the curious occasion of the 'peacock dinner', when W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound led four lesser-known poets to the home of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to eat a peacock. |
Library Class |
English E605.D4
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Subject |
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922.
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Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929.
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Moore, T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
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Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962.
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Flint, F. S. (Frank Stewart), 1885-1960.
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English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Dinners and dining -- England -- Sussex -- History -- 20th century.
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Alt Title |
Poets and the peacock dinner
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