Ads · Works of Thomas Love Peacock
Search results
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work.
Thomas Love Peacock was an accomplished poet, essayist, opera critic, and satiric novelist. During his lifetime his works received the approbation of other writers (some of whom were Peacock’s friends and the targets of his satire), literary critics (many of whom were simply his targets), and a…
In his best-known work, Nightmare Abbey (1818), romantic melancholy is satirized, with the characters Scythrop drawn from Shelley, Mr. Flosky from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mr. Cypress from Lord Byron.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thomas Love Peacock has 301 books on Goodreads with 12736 ratings. Thomas Love Peacock’s most popular book is Nightmare Abbey.
The works of Thomas Love Peacock, ed. H. F. B. Brett-Smith and C. E. Jones, 10 vols. (1924–34)
Thomas Love Peacock 18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866. Welcome: The T. L. Peacock Society attempts to popularise the eximious virtues of Peacock's novels and other writings, as well as promoting the love of Classical learning which was a feature of his life and works.
People also ask
Who was Thomas Love Peacock?
Why should you read Thomas Love Peacock?
How many books does Thomas Love Peacock have?
Who wrote Thomas Love Peacock?
Nov 16, 2006 · The works of Thomas Love Peacock, including his novels, poems, fugitive pieces, criticisms, etc. With a pref. by Lord Houghton, a biographical notice by his granddaughter, Edith Nicolls, and a portrait.
