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Title Poets & the peacock dinner : the literary history of a meal / Lucy McDiarmid.
Author McDiarmid, Lucy, author.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2014


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Description xviii, 212 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
ISBN 9780198788331 paperback
9780198722786 hardback
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
Subject Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922.
Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929.
Moore, T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962.
Flint, F. S. (Frank Stewart), 1885-1960.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Dinners and dining -- England -- Sussex -- History -- 20th century.
Alt Title Poets and the peacock dinner

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