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29%OFFStanley Plumly - The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb - 9780393353068 - V9780393353068
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The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb

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Description for The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb Paperback. A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
On 28 December 1817, Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he refers to in his diaries and autobiography as the immortal dinner . He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate his progress on his most important historical painting so far, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which Keats, Wordsworth and Charles Lamb, also a guest at the party, appear. After thoughtful and entertaining discussions of poetry and art and their relation to Enlightenment science, the party evolves into a lively, raucous evening. This event will prove to be a highlight in ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393353068
SKU
V9780393353068
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About Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly is the author of many volumes of poetry as well as The Immortal Evening and Posthumous Keats. The winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other honors, he is a professor at the University of Maryland and lives in Frederick, Maryland.

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