{"product_id":"eat-drink-and-be-merry-poems-about-food-and-drink-hardcover","title":"Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems about Food and Drink - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEating 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. \u003ci\u003eEat, Drink, and Be Merry\u003c\/i\u003e abundantly fills the gap. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll 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 No l 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,\" \u003ci\u003eEat, Drink, and Be Merry\u003c\/i\u003e serves up a tantalizing and variegated literary feast.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including \u003ci\u003eLove Poems, \u003c\/i\u003eand is the author of Madame Blavatsky's \u003ci\u003eBaboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 6.52 x 4.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764207649056,"sku":"9781400040230","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/05d49f0889378e4439fd7bdeee2bac3e.webp?v=1780245828","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/eat-drink-and-be-merry-poems-about-food-and-drink-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}