Poets & the Peacock dinner : the literary history of a meal / / Lucy McDiarmid
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| Autore: |
McDiarmid Lucy
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| Titolo: |
Poets & the Peacock dinner : the literary history of a meal / / Lucy McDiarmid
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 821.91209 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poets, English |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Poets & the Peacock dinner |
| ISBN: | 0-19-878833-9 |
| 0-19-103535-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459692303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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