Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal

by Lucy McDiarmid

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198788339
• ISBN13: 9780198788331
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"