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Author McDiarmid, Lucy

Title Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal / lucy McDiarmid
Published Corby : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
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 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 standing in a row, Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history derived from intimacies rather than 'isms.' The dinner evolved from three close literary friendships, those between Pound and Yeats, Yeats and Lady Gregory, and Lady Gregory and Blunt, whose romantic affair thirty years earlier was unknown to the others. Through close readings of unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs, and poems, in an argument at all times theoretically informed, McDiarmid reveals the way marriage and adultery, as well as friendship, offer ways of transmitting the professional culture of poetry. Like the women who are absent from the photograph, the poets at its edges (F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, Sturge Moore, and Victor Plarr) are also brought into the discussion, adding interest by their very marginality. This is literary history told with considerable style and brio, often comically aware of the extraordinary alliances and rivalries of the 'seven male poets' but attuned to significant issues in coterie formation, literary homosociality, and the development of modernist poetics from late-Victorian and Georgian beginnings. 00
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index
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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 Stuart), 1885-1960.
SUBJECT Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 fast
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 fast
Flint, F. S. (Frank Stuart), 1885-1960 fast
Moore, T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944 fast
Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929 fast
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast
Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Dinners and dining -- England -- Sussex -- History -- 20th century
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dinners and dining
English poetry
Poets, English
England -- Sussex
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191035357
0191035351