Thomas Love Peacock

18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866

An English satirical novelist and poet, and a close friend of Shelley. His comic novels of talk and ideas, among them Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle, lampoon the enthusiasms of his contemporaries, the Romantic poets included. He spent almost forty years at the East India Company in London.

works

1820

The Four Ages of Poetry

Peacock's mock-history of poetry through ages of iron, gold, silver and brass, first printed in Ollier's Literary Miscellany in 1820.

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