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9781400040230

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

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-04-08
  • Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Summary

Eating 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.Eat, Drink, and Be Merryabundantly 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 celebrationsin 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 Noel 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,"Eat, Drink, and Be Merryserves up a tantalizing and variegated literary feast.

Author Biography

Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.

Table of Contents

PLAIN FOOD
Food
15(1)
John Updike
Undue Significance
15(1)
Emily Dickinson
On Food
16(2)
Hilaire Belloc
Taste
18(1)
John Davies
From Satires II.2
19(2)
Horace/Alexander Pope
A Glass of Water
21(1)
May Sarton
Bread
22(1)
R. S. Thomas
Milk, Milk, Milk
23(2)
Cole Porter
Of Tea, Commended by Her Majesty
25(1)
Edmund Waller
The Two Teapots
26(1)
John Fuller
Coffee
27(1)
Anon
From The Rape of the Lock
27(1)
Alexander Pope
Farm Wife
28(3)
R. S. Thomas
SQUARE MEALS
Sunday Morning Breakfast Time
31(1)
Cole Porter
Dr Browning at Breakfast
32(2)
Walter De La Mare
A Miracle for Breakfast
34(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
`I never had a piece of toast'
36(1)
Anon
Breakfast
36(1)
William Carlos Williams
Breakfast with Gerard Manley Hopkins
37(1)
Anthony Brode
Epigram III.27
38(1)
Martial
Epigram X.48
39(1)
Martial
After Lunch
40(1)
Po Chu-I
Tea
40(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Banquet
41(1)
Hafiz
Angelo Orders his Dinner
42(2)
Bayard Taylor
Le Diner
44(2)
A. H. Clough
A Literary Dinner
46(1)
Vladimir Nabokov
Inviting a Friend to Supper
47(2)
Ben Jonson
Supper With Lindsay
49(3)
Theodore Roethke
Poetry for Supper
52(1)
R. S. Thomas
Something on a Tray
53(2)
Noel Coward
The Hever Picnic
55(1)
Ralph Hodgson
The Dining Room
56(1)
Czeslaw Milosz
Restaurant Car
57(4)
Louis MacNeice
FRUIT
The Fruit
61(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Dish of Fruit
62(1)
William Carlos Williams
Forbidden Fruit
62(1)
Emily Dickinson
Kelmscott Crab Apples
63(1)
William Morris
Apples for Paul Suttman
64(2)
Anthony Hecht
Moonlit Apples
66(1)
John Drinkwater
Quince
67(1)
Shafer Ben Utman Al-Mushafi
A Quince Preserved through the Winter, Given to a Lady
68(1)
Antiphilos
The Lemon
68(1)
Abdullah IBN Al-Mutazz
The Strawberry Plant
69(1)
Ruth Pitter
Nevertheless
70(2)
Marianne Moore
Persimmons
72(1)
Issa
The Cloud-berry
72(1)
John Veitch
Blueberries
73(5)
Robert Frost
Blueberrying in August
78(1)
Amy Clampitt
Brambleberries, Blackberries
79(1)
Ruth Pitter
Blackberrying
80(2)
Sylvia Plath
Tangerine Eater
82(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
A Dish of Peaches in Russia
83(1)
Wallace Stevens
Tropical Fruit
84(1)
James Thomson
Nine Nectarines
85(2)
Marianne Moore
Sunday Lemons
87(2)
Derek Walcott
A Song of Bananas
89(2)
Rudyard Kipling
Damson Boy
91(1)
Ruth Pitter
Autumn Fruits
92(1)
James Thomson
From A Kumquat for John Keats
93(4)
Tony Harrison
VEGETABLES
Last Year's Picnic
97(1)
Philodemos
Epigram XI.31
98(1)
Martial
Rosemary
99(1)
Marianne Moore
Eating Bamboo-Shoots
100(1)
Po Chu-I
Yam
101(1)
James Merrill
Peas
102(1)
Anon
The Broad Bean Sermon
103(2)
Les Murray
Mushrooms
105(2)
Sylvia Plath
Swedes
107(1)
Edward Thomas
The Mangel-Bury
108(2)
Ivor Gurney
Potato
110(2)
Richard Wilbur
Recipe for a Salad
112(1)
Sydney Smith
Salad
113(2)
William Cowper
Brow
115(4)
Mortimer Collins
DELICATESSEN
In Schrafft's
119(1)
W. H. Auden
Gooseberry Fool
120(2)
Amy Clampitt
Honey
122(1)
Apollonides
The Honeycomb
122(1)
Robert Herrick
High Sugar
123(1)
Les Murray
Chocolates
124(2)
Louis Simpson
Ice Cream
126(1)
Osip Mandelstam
A Grace for Ice-Cream
127(1)
Allan M. Laing
From Epistle to Mrs Tyler
128(1)
Christopher Smart
Written on a Paper which Contained a Piece of Bride Cake given to the Author by a Lady
129(2)
William Collins
The Bun
131(1)
Walter De La Mare
A Piece of Cake
132(1)
Tony Harrison
Offering
133(1)
Philip
From The Alchemist
134(1)
Ben Jonson
From The Battle of the Summer Islands
135(3)
Edmund Waller
A Simple Feast
138(1)
Krinagoras
The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant
139(3)
William Cowper
Ode on a Jar of Pickles
142(2)
Bayard Taylor
Epigram V.78
144(5)
Martial
THE FOOD OF LOVE
I am a Peach Tree
149(1)
Li Po
Wild Peaches
150(2)
Elinor Wylie
Cherry
152(1)
Gene Baro
The Orange
153(1)
Wendy Cope
The Oranges
154(1)
Abd Ur-Rahman Ibn Mohammed Ibn Omar
Pomegranate
154(1)
Diodoros Zonas
Figs
155(5)
D. H. Lawrence
Moon Milk
160(1)
Sudraka
Since
161(2)
W. H. Auden
Elegies 1.4
163(3)
Ovid
Christopher Marlowe
From Don Juan
166(1)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
An Invitation to an Invitation
167(1)
Catullus
Sylvia
168(1)
Samuel Croxall
Epicurean Reminiscences of a Sentimentalist
169(3)
Thomas Hood
At Tea
172(1)
Thomas Hardy
In Praise of Cocoa, Cupid's Nightcap
173(1)
Stanley J. Sharpless
Oysters
174(3)
Jonathan Swift
FEASTING AND FASTING
That Little Old Bar in the Ritz
177(1)
Cole Porter
Meat without Mirth
178(1)
Robert Herrick
The Party's Going with a Swing
179(4)
Noel Coward
From The Fudge Family in Paris
183(2)
Thomas Moore
From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
185(4)
Anon
Sonnet to Vauxhall
189(1)
Thomas Hood
Henry King
190(1)
Hilaire Belloc
On the Great Eater of Grays-Inn
191(3)
Charles Cotton
The Glutton
194(1)
Walter De La Mare
On Gut
195(1)
Ben Jonson
Epigram VIII.23
195(1)
Martial
The Gourmand
196(5)
Harry Graham
From Piers Plowman
201(5)
William Langland
Fasting
206(1)
Rumi
The Grape Cure
207(2)
James Merrill
Curl Up and Diet
209(2)
Ogden Nash
On a Diet
211(4)
William Matthews
LIQUOR IS QUICKER
The Five Reasons
215(1)
Henry Aldrich
Reflection on Ice-Breaking
215(1)
Ogden Nash
Drinking
216(1)
Abraham Cowley
Facing Wine
217(1)
Li Po
On One, Who Said, He Drank to Clear His Eyes
218(1)
Charles Cotton
Consummate Drinkers
219(2)
Benedictbeuern Ms.
Odes III.21
221(1)
Horace
Great Bacchus
222(1)
Matthew Prior
Drinking in the Morning
223(1)
Abdullah Ibn Al-Mutazz
Drinking Alone
224(1)
Li Po
Usquebaugh
225(1)
Wendy Cope
Hogmanay
226(1)
Norman MacCaig
John Barleycorn
227(3)
Robert Burns
The Soul of the Wine
230(1)
Charles Baudelaire
Winejug
231(1)
Osip Mandelstam
The Wine of the Question
232(1)
Hafiz
His Farewell to Sack
233(3)
Robert Herrick
A Voice From Under The Table
236(3)
Richard Wilbur
Acknowledgments 239(10)
Index of Authors 249

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