Poems Of Food And Drink: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

Author: Peter Washington
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Category: Poetry Anthologies (various Poets)
Book Format: 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. 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.

About Peter Washington
Editor's Biography.
Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of anthologies in the Everyman Library's Pocket Poets series, including Love Poems, Erotic Poems and Poems of Sleep and Dreams

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SKU BK-9781841597539
Barcode # 9781841597539
Brand Everyman's Library
Artist / Author Peter Washington
Shipping Weight 0.2300kg
Shipping Width 0.110m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.170m
Assembled Length 16.500m
Assembled Height 1.900m
Assembled Width 11.300m
Type Hardcover

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