March 2, 2015
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