dinner parties for poets

in 1946, edith sitwell hosted a dinner party at the sesame club. and then dylan thomas and his wife showed up…

Dylan Thomas and his wife both arrived wildly drunk, fought and hit each other, and altogether presented a painful problem to Edith and all the distinguished guests, as they could neither be disposed of nor tamed. I shall never forget Mrs Thomas shoving a drunken elbow into her ice cream, then offering the elbow to T. S, Eliot & telling him to “lick it off.”

were i eliot, i would have gotten out the hershey’s® syrup and gone to town.

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source: rosamond lehmann by selena hastings (2002)