Thomas Love Peacock
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"The people lived in darkness and vassalage. They were lost in the grossness of beef and ale. They had no pamphleteering societies to demonstrate that reading and writing are better than meat and drink; and they were utterly destitute of the blessings of those "schools for all," the house of correction, and the treadmill, wherein the autochthonal justice of our agrestic kakistocracy now castigates the heinous sins which were then committed with impunity, of treading on old foot-paths, picking up dead wood, and moving on the face of the earth within sound of the whirr of a partridge."--The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829) by Thomas Love Peacock |
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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. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.
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Novels
- Headlong Hall (published 1815 but dated 1816) [revised slightly, 1837]
- Melincourt (1817)
- Nightmare Abbey (1818) [revised slightly, 1837]
- Maid Marian (1822)
- The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829)
- Crotchet Castle (1831) [revised slightly, 1837]
- Gryll Grange (1861) [serialised first during 1860]
Verse
- The Monks of St. Mark (1804)
- Palmyra and other Poems (1805)
- The Genius of the Thames: a Lyrical Poem (1810)
- The Genius of the Thames Palmyra and other Poems (1812)
- The Philosophy of Melancholy (1812)
- Sir Hornbook, or Childe Launcelot's Expedition (1813)
- Sir Proteus: a Satirical Ballad (1814)
- The Round Table, or King Arthur's Feast (1817)
- Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spirit (1818)
- Paper Money Lyrics (1837)
- "The War-Song of Dinas Vawr" (in The Misfortunes of Elphin, 1829)
Essays
- The Four Ages of Poetry (1820)
- Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House (1837)
- Memoirs of Shelley (1858–62)
- The Last Day of Windsor Forest (1887) [composed 1862]
- Prospectus: Classical Education
Plays
- The Three Doctors
- The Dilettanti
- Gl'Ingannati, or The Deceived (translated from the Italian, 1862)
Unfinished tales and novels
- Satyrane (c. 1816)
- Calidore (c. 1816)
- The Pilgrim of Provence (c. 1826)
- The Lord of the Hills (c. 1835)
- Julia Procula (c. 1850)
- A Story Opening at Chertsey (c. 1850)
- A Story of a Mansion among the Chiltern Hills (c. 1859)
- Boozabowt Abbey (c. 1859)
- Cotswald Chace (c. 1860)
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