Lucy McDiarmid in The New Yorker

Congratulations to Lucy McDiarmid, our Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, for the review of her book, Poets and the Peacock Dinner, in the New Yorker.

From the review: 

The peacock dinner is affectionately reconstructed in Lucy McDiarmid’s “Poets & The Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal.” It is the second excellent book to appear in the past year about an illustrious dinner thrown for poets: Stanley Plumly’s “The Immortal Evening” described a night on which the eminent painter Benjamin Robert Haydon entertained Wordsworth, Keats, and Lamb, all of whom had posed for Haydon’s ambitious canvas  “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem.”