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Lucy McDiarmid in The New Yorker

Read Dan Chiasson’s Review of her Poets and the Peacock Dinner

Posted in: English Department

Congratulations to Lucy McDiarmid, our Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, for the of her book, Poets and the Peacock Dinner, in the New Yorker.

From the review: 

The peacock dinner is affectionately reconstructed in Lucy McDiarmid鈥檚 鈥淧oets & The Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal.鈥 It is the second excellent book to appear in the past year about an illustrious dinner thrown for poets: Stanley Plumly鈥檚 鈥淭he Immortal Evening鈥 described a night on which the eminent painter Benjamin Robert Haydon entertained Wordsworth, Keats, and Lamb, all of whom had posed for Haydon鈥檚 ambitious canvas  鈥淐hrist鈥檚 Entry into Jerusalem.鈥