Prologue : seven poets and a peacock
Male poets in proximity
Lady Gregory's ideas
Victorian adultery
A woman's sonnets
Alliances and rivalries
The naked muse
"a really important event"
A live tradition
Epilogue : the long peacock dinner.
Poets & the peacock dinner : the literary history of a meal by Lucy McDiarmid. ISBN 9780198722786. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.