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Poems Of Food And Drink

By Peter Washington

Poems Of Food And Drink Poetry

Poems Of Food And Drink

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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 Noël 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
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2003-04-03
Publication Date:
2003-04-03
Publisher:
Everyman
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1841597538
ISBN13:
9781841597539
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
231 g
Height:
111 cm
Width:
165 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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