Poets and the Peacock Dinner
The Literary History of a Meal
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 October 2016
- ISBN 9780198788331
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 215x137x13 mm
- Weight 298 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Lucy McDiarmid creates a new kind of literary history, telling an illimuntating 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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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 Through close readings of unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs, and poems, in an argument at all times theoretically informed, McDiarmid reveals the way marriage and adultery, as well as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. ^lPoets 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.
This short, but densely packed, biography of a literary meal and a literary occasion is fascinating. It will appeal to those interested in the movement of poetry across periods as McDiarmid weaves together the Victorians and Modernists, while supplying more than a gesturing nod to their Romantic predecessors.
Table of 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
