Stanley Plumly Speaks On New Book About Keats, Wordsworth, Lamb
November 13, 2014
Stanley Plumly discusses "The Immortal Evening" with 25 people in Tawes Hall.
By Jeremy Snow, The Diamondback.
On a November afternoon, students and faculty focused on one December evening in 1817.
Author Stanley Plumly spoke to about 25 people Tuesday in Tawes Hall about his new book, "The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb."
Poetry professor and poet Michael Collier led a conversation about the book with Plumly, this university’s creative writing director who has worked in the English department for about three decades.
The book centers on a pivotal dinner hosted by artist Benjamin Robert Haydon for 19th century writers, such as poets John Keats and William Wordsworth and essayist Charles Lamb.
“I circle that event, the dinner, and deal with their lives in a broader sense and the consequences of what happens after the dinner,” Plumly said.
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