The Earl of Lytton 

The Peacock Dinner 

January 18, 1914 

Photograph

The Peacock Dinner, so named because peacock was served, was a lunch organized by Ezra Pound to honor the poet Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) and to garner publicity for the Imagists, a new poetic group. The figures in the photograph are, from left to right, Victor Plarr, Thomas Sturge Moore, W.B. Yeats, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Frank Flint. The poets presented Blunt with copies of their poems in a marble box carved by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Aldington’s inclusion illustrates his rapid success in penetrating the London literary scene. 

From the Collection of Simon Hewett