Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Peter Washington

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Peter Washington

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. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry 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 No l 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, Eat, Drink, and Be Merry serves up a tantalizing and variegated literary feast.

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.

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ISBN 13	9781400040230
ISBN 10	140004023X
Titel	Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
Autor	Peter Washington
Serie	Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
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Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-04-08
Seitenanzahl	256
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