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Poets and the Peacock Dinner - The Literary History of a Meal (Hardcover)
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Poets and the Peacock Dinner - The Literary History of a Meal (Hardcover)
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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 Through close readings of unpublished letters, diaries,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. Poets and the Peacock
Dinner is written with critical sophistication and a wit and
lightness that never compromise on the rich texture of event and
personality.
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