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Eat, Drink and be Merry
Peter (E Washington
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Hardcover. Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. In this book, all kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics, banquets and many others. Editor(s): Washington, Peter. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 113 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics and banquets, intimate suppers and quiet dinners, noisy parties and public celebrations - in poems by Horace, Catullus, Hafiz, Rumi, Rilke, Moore, Nabokov, Updike, Mandelstam, Stevens, and many others. From Sylvia Plath's ecstatic vision of juice-laden berries in `Blackberrying' to D. H. Lawrence's lush celebration of `Figs', from the civilized comfort of Noel Coward's `Something on a Tray' to the salacious provocation of Swift's `Oysters', from Li Po on `Drinking Alone' to Baudelaire on `The Soul of the Wine', and from Emily Dickinson's `Forbidden Fruit' to Elizabeth Bishop's `A Miracle for Breakfast', Poems of Food and Drink serves up a tantalizing and variegated literary feast.
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841597539
SKU
V9781841597539
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