Richard Davenporthines

Sunday roasts and beaded bubbles: dining with the poets

In a review of The Immortal Evening by Stanley Plumly and Poets and the Peacock Dinner by Lucy McDiarmid, Richard Davenport-Hines relives two feasts of literary legend

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  • The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb

    Stanley Plumly

    W. W. Norton, pp. 336

  • Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal

    Lucy McDiarmid

    Oxford University Press, pp. 212

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