The Resource Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal, lucy McDiarmid
Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal, lucy McDiarmid
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- 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 Through close readings of unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs, and poems, in an argument at all times theoretically informed, McDiarmid reveals the way marriage and adultery, as well as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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780191035357
- Label
- Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal
- Title
- Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal
- Statement of responsibility
- lucy McDiarmid
- Subject
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- Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962
- Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962
- Biographies
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dinners and dining
- Dinners and dining -- England | Sussex -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- England -- Sussex
- English poetry
- English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Flint, F. S., (Frank Stuart), 1885-1960
- Flint, F. S., (Frank Stuart), 1885-1960
- History
- 1900-1999
- Moore, T. Sturge, (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929
- Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929
- Poets, English
- Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Yeats, W. B., (William Butler), 1865-1939
- Yeats, W. B., (William Butler), 1865-1939
- Moore, T. Sturge, (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McDiarmid, Lucy
- Dewey number
- 821.9109
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR601
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
- Plarr, Victor
- Moore, T. Sturge
- Yeats, W. B.
- Pound, Ezra
- Aldington, Richard
- Flint, F. S.
- English poetry
- Poets, English
- Dinners and dining
- Aldington, Richard
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
- Flint, F. S.
- Moore, T. Sturge
- Plarr, Victor
- Pound, Ezra
- Yeats, W. B.
- POETRY
- Dinners and dining
- English poetry
- Poets, English
- England
- Label
- Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal, lucy McDiarmid
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 894554923
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780191035357
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)894554923
- Label
- Poets and the Peacock dinner. The literary history of a meal, lucy McDiarmid
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 894554923
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780191035357
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)894554923
Subject
- Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962
- Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962
- Biographies
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dinners and dining
- Dinners and dining -- England | Sussex -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- England -- Sussex
- English poetry
- English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Flint, F. S., (Frank Stuart), 1885-1960
- Flint, F. S., (Frank Stuart), 1885-1960
- History
- 1900-1999
- Moore, T. Sturge, (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929
- Plarr, Victor, 1863-1929
- Poets, English
- Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Yeats, W. B., (William Butler), 1865-1939
- Yeats, W. B., (William Butler), 1865-1939
- Moore, T. Sturge, (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944
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