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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191035357
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poets and the Peacock DinnerDDC classification:
  • 821.909
LOC classification:
  • PR85 -- .M33 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- POETS AND THE PEACOCK DINNER -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue: Seven Poets and a Peacock -- 1 Male Poets in Proximity -- 2 Lady Gregory's Ideas -- 3 Victorian Adultery -- 4 A Woman's Sonnets -- 5 Alliances and Rivalries -- 6 The Naked Muse -- 7 "a really important event" -- 8 A Live Tradition -- Epilogue: The Long Peacock Dinner -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history, telling 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.
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Cover -- POETS AND THE PEACOCK DINNER -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue: Seven Poets and a Peacock -- 1 Male Poets in Proximity -- 2 Lady Gregory's Ideas -- 3 Victorian Adultery -- 4 A Woman's Sonnets -- 5 Alliances and Rivalries -- 6 The Naked Muse -- 7 "a really important event" -- 8 A Live Tradition -- Epilogue: The Long Peacock Dinner -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history, telling 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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