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

图书标准信息

• 作者 Peter Washington 著；Peter Washington 编
• 出版社 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• 出版时间 2003-04
• ISBN 9781400040230
• 定价 111.60元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 256页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

【内容简介】

Eatinganddrinkingandtheritualsthatgowiththemareatleastasimportantaslovinginmostpeople’slives,yetforeveryhundredanthologiesofpoemsaboutlove,hardlyoneisdevotedtothepleasuresofthetable.Eat,Drink,andBeMerryabundantlyfillsthegap.

Allkindsoffoodsandbeveragesarelaidoutinthesepages,alongwithpicnicsandbanquets,intimatesuppersandquietdinners,noisypartiesandpubliccelebrations–inpoemsbyHorace,Catullus,Hafiz,Rumi,Rilke,Moore,Nabokov,Updike,Mandelstam,Stevens,andmanyothers.FromSylviaPlath’secstaticvisionofjuice-ladenberriesin“Blackberrying”toD.H.Lawrence’slushcelebrationof“Figs,”fromthecivilizedcomfortofNoëlCoward’s“SomethingonaTray”tothesalaciousprovocationofSwift’s“Oysters,”fromLiPoon“DrinkingAlone”toBaudelaireon“TheSouloftheWine,”andfromEmilyDickinson’s“ForbiddenFruit”toElizabethBishop’s“AMiracleforBreakfast,”Eat,Drink,andBeMerryservesupatantalizingandvariegatedliteraryfeast.