Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems About Food and Drink

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems About Food and Drink (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most peopleâ€™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 celebrationsâ€“in poems by Horace, Catullus, Hafiz, Rumi, Rilke, Moore, Nabokov, Updike, Mandelstam, Stevens, and many others. From Sylvia Plathâ€™s ecstatic vision of juice-laden berries in â€œBlackberryingâ€ to D. H. Lawrenceâ€™s lush celebration of â€œFigs,â€ from the civilized comfort of NoÃ«l Cowardâ€™s â€œSomething on a Trayâ€ to the salacious provocation of Swiftâ€™s â€œOysters,â€ from Li Po on â€œDrinking Aloneâ€ to Baudelaire on â€œThe Soul of the Wine,â€ and from Emily Dickinsonâ€™s â€œForbidden Fruitâ€ to Elizabeth Bishopâ€™s â€œA Miracle for Breakfast,â€ Eat, Drink, and Be Merry serves up a tantalizing and variegated literary feast.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781400040230
Color White
ReleaseDate 2003-04-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400040230

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems About Food and Drink (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)