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

Author: Stanley Plumly.

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

Author: Stanley Plumly.

$16.95 $5.98
Item #: D22276
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393353068
Two centuries ago, on December 28, 1817, painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he referred to in his diaries as the "immortal dinner." He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to William Wordsworth, and to celebrate completing his historical painting, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which the faces of Keats, Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb (als... More
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Two centuries ago, on December 28, 1817, painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he referred to in his diaries as the "immortal dinner." He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to William Wordsworth, and to celebrate completing his historical painting, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which the faces of Keats, Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb (also a guest at the party) all appeared. After discussions of poetry and art and their relation to Enlightenment science, the party became a lively, raucous evening—one that would prove to be a highlight in each of their lives. Poet Stanley Plumly takes this dinner as a lens through which to understand the lives and works of these creative minds.


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