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Works. Novels. Verse. Essays. Plays. Unfinished tales and novels. References. Sources. Bibliography. Editions. Correspondence. Works of criticism. External links. Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company.
1785–1866. 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 notoriously vocal reading public.
Thomas Love Peacock has 298 books on Goodreads with 12694 ratings. Thomas Love Peacock’s most popular book is Nightmare Abbey.
1. Apr. 2024 · Thomas Love Peacock was an English author who satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot. His best verse is interspersed in his novels. Peacock met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812, and the two became such close friends that.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thomas Love Peacock war ein britischer Romancier, Dichter und Dramatiker, der vor allem durch die Romane Nightmare Abbey und Crotchet Castle bekannt wurde, und als Vorsitzender des Prüfungsausschusses über zwanzig Jahre das Handeln der Britischen Ostindien-Kompanie entscheidend mitbestimmte.
The works of Thomas Love Peacock, ed. H. F. B. Brett-Smith and C. E. Jones, 10 vols. (1924–34) N. A. Joukovsky, ‘Peacock before Headlong Hall : a new look at his early years’, Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin , 36 (1985), 1–40
Thomas Love Peacock (1785‒1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock's earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, was the most ...
