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Poems of Food and Drink

by Peter Washington
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Poems of Food and Drink
Poems of Food and Drink

Savory and sweet verses for epicurean delight.

If your heart finds joy in the evocative powers of both food and verse, "Poems of Food and Drink" is a delightful blend that will tantalize your literary taste buds. It's a treat for anyone with a penchant for poetic morsels that celebrate the sensual pleasures of eating and drinking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Poems of Food and Drink

by Peter Washington
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ISBN: 9781841597539
Authors: Peter Washington
Publisher: Historic England Press
Date of Publication: 2003-04-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Poetry
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.53
(rated by 68 readers)

Description

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.
 

Savory and sweet verses for epicurean delight.

If your heart finds joy in the evocative powers of both food and verse, "Poems of Food and Drink" is a delightful blend that will tantalize your literary taste buds. It's a treat for anyone with a penchant for poetic morsels that celebrate the sensual pleasures of eating and drinking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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