The immortal evening : a legendary dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb / Stanley Plumly

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; 368 pages ; 22 cm. Summary; On 28 December 1817, Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he refers 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 his progress on his most important historical painting so far, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which Keats, Wordsworth and Charles Lamb, also a guest at the party, appear. After thoughtful and entertaining discussions of poetry and art and their relation to Enlightenment science, the party evolves into a lively, raucous evening. This event will prove to be a highlight in the lives of these immortals. A beautiful and profound work of extraordinary brilliance, The Immortal Evening takes this dinner as a lens through which to understand the lives and work of these men and to contemplate the immortality of genius. Subjects; Keats, John 1795-1821 � Friends and associates. Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 � Friends and associates. Lamb, Charles 1775-1834 � Friends and associates. Haydon, Benjamin Robert 1786-1846 � Friends and associates. English poetry � 19th century � History and criticism.