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Gonzaga University Spring Events Calendar (Gonzaga University)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Mar 2016
(Source. Gonzaga University) ... SPOKANE, Wash ... MONDAY, MARCH 21 ... Classics, the Great War, and Survival in Richard Aldington's Poetry and Novels.' The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7 p.m ... TBA ... Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra with Richard Stoltzman. Conducted by Kevin Hekmatpanah, the Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra welcomes clarinet soloist Richard Stoltzman for a program featuring works by Berlioz, Ravel, Copland and Bernstein....

Poets & the Peacock Dinner, by Lucy McDiarmid

Edit The Irish Times 11 Apr 2015
On January 18th, 1914, a group of six poets left London to travel by motor car to the West Sussex residence of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. The most famous of their party, WB Yeats, had hired the vehicle from Harrods at a cost of £5. Apart from Yeats, the poets were Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington, FS Flint, Thomas Sturge Moore and Victor Plarr. The purpose of their journey was to honour the elderly Blunt as a poet ...   Designated driver....

What happened when seven poets met to eat peacock in 1914?

Edit The Irish Times 10 Mar 2015
On January 18th 1914, seven poets gathered to eat a peacock ... The visitors were WB Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the occasion, two older poets (Victor Plarr, on the far left, and Thomas Sturge Moore ) and two young Imagist friends of Pound (Richard Aldington, next to Pound, and Frank Flint). Culture Shock ... The American poet H.D (Hilda Doolittle), who had been engaged to Pound, married Aldington only months before the dinner ... ....

When Pound and Yeats Ate a Peacock

Edit New Yorker 24 Feb 2015
The guest list should come as a reproach to anyone who overvalues his literary fame, since, aside from Yeats and Pound, the other figures—including Blunt, a celebrity in his day—are all but forgotten. Victor Plarr, Thomas Sturge Moore, Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint ... ....

Poets & The Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal, Lucy McDiarmid, review

Edit The Independent 21 Dec 2014
"On 18 January 1914 seven poets gathered to eat a peacock," opens this entertaining microbiography. For ten years the literary critic Lucy McDiarmid pondered a four-and-a-half hour meal, its antecedents and aftermath ... On his right stands W B Yeats with Victor Plarr and Thomas Sturge Moore; on his left is the young Ezra Pound, accompanied by Imagists Richard Aldington and Frank Flint ... The box was engraved “Homage to W.S.BLVNT” ... ....

Bones and barbed wire, poetry and poppies

Edit The Guardian 02 Nov 2014
Poppies at the Tower of London. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, 30 October 2014. Photograph. Nick Harvey/Rex Features ... My great-uncle Frank died in 1917, serving in the Royal Flying Corps ... As the sun went down, a yeoman warder read the names ... Oxford ... Richard Evans ... but Jones might have chosen a more skeletal poet such as Richard Aldington or Wilfrid Gibson - one who didn’t have the popular emotional uplift that he calls sentimental ... ....

Edinburgh festival 2014 review: The War – art theatre with a vengeance

Edit The Guardian 10 Aug 2014
one that involves acting out the sixth book of Homer's Iliad, in which Hector fatally prepares for battle, as well as calling on their memories of Richard Aldington's satirical antiwar novel Death of a Hero and the war diaries of a modernist Russian poet, Nikolai Gumilyov....

Playwright breaks Russian silence around first world war with epic drama

Edit The Guardian 08 Aug 2014
The War draws on Homer's The Iliad and Richard Aldington's Death of the Hero ... Drawing on texts such as Homer's great epic, The Iliad, and Death of the Hero, the semi-fictional account of the first world war by British soldier Richard Aldington, Pankov said that while the characters were Russian, their stories were universal....
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