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  1. britannica.com

    4 days agoThomas Love Peacock (born Oct. 18, 1785, Weymouth, Dorset, Eng.—died Jan. 23, 1866, Lower Halliford, Middlesex) 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 Shelley ...
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    The young T. L. Peacock. Peacock was born in Weymouth, Dorset, the son of Samuel Peacock and his wife Sarah Love, daughter of Thomas Love, a retired master of a man-of-war in the Royal Navy. [1] His father was a glass merchant in London, partner of a Mr Pellatt, presumed to be Apsley Pellatt (1763-1826). [2] Peacock went with his mother to live with her family at Chertsey in 1791 and in 1792 ...
  4. biographs.org

    Thomas Love Peacock, an influential English author, was born on October 18, 1785, in Weymouth, Dorset. Raised by his widowed mother after his father's death, he exhibited an insatiable thirst for knowledge from a young age. Despite leaving school at 12, he pursued self-education, mastering Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and English literature.
  5. encyclopedia.com

    Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866). Peacock had modest private means but earned his living as an official in the East India Company. He wrote essays, poetry, plays, and pamphlets, but is best known for his novels, Headlong Hall (1816), Melincourt (1817), Nightmare Abbey (1818), Crotchet Castle (1831), and Gryll Grange (1860-1).
  6. thomaslovepeacock.net

    THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK SOCIETY various authors on T. L. Peacock ... who adopts a mildly fictional form to discourse his opinions upon things like art, literature, politics, and wine. Peacock was born at Weymouth in 1785, and was educated at a private school. ... ---from Thomas Love Peacock by J. I. M. Stewart, London. (1963), pp. 8-9
  7. poetryfoundation.org

    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.
  8. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. Although Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) produced a substantial quantity of poetry in modes commonly practised by both the major and minor writers of his day-the meditative and loco-descriptive poem, personal lyric, mythological narrative, and verse satire-he is now regarded chiefly as the author of a kind of satirical prose fiction often considered to be peculiar to him and which an ...
  9. oxfordreference.com

    "Thomas Love Peacock" published on by null. (1785-1866),satirist, essayist, and poet, was the son of a London glass merchant. ... Peacock's sceptical attitude to the fashionable cult of the arts is apparent in his two most sustained critical essays, 'Essay on Fashionable Literature' (a fragment, written 1818) and 'The Four Ages of ...
  10. theromanticmovement.com

    Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was born on 18th October 1785 in Weymouth, Dorset, England and died on 23rd January 1866 aged 80. He was born on 18th October 1785 in Weymouth, Dorset, England and died on 23rd January 1866 aged 80.
  11. infoplease.com

    Literature and the Arts > English Literature, 19th cent.: Biographies ... Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866, English novelist and poet. He was employed by the East India Company from 1819 to 1856, serving as its chief examiner the final 20 years. Peacock's novels, comic and delightfully satirical, parody the intellectual modes and pretenses of ...

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    Thomas Love Peacock

    English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company

    Thomas Love Peacock 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. Wikipedia

    BornOctober 18, 1785, Weymouth, Dorset, England
    Age at death80 years
    DiedJanuary 23, 1866, Lower Halliford, Shepperton, Surrey, England
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