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

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

Plumly, Stanley

Paperback

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0393353060
ISBN13: 9780393353068
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Jul 19 2016
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

The author of the highly acclaimed Posthumous Keats, praised as full of...those fleeting moments we call genius (Washington Post), now provides a window into the lives of Keats and his contemporaries in this brilliant new work.

On December 28, 1817, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he referred to in his diaries and autobiography as the immortal dinner. He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate with his friends his most important historical painting thus far, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which Keats, Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb (also a guest at the party) appeared. After thoughtful and entertaining discussions of poetry and art and their relation to Enlightenment science, the party evolved into a lively, raucous evening. This legendary event would prove to be a highlight in the lives of these immortals.

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