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...
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Nightmare Abbey (category Novels by Thomas Love Peacock)
an 1818 novella by Thomas Love Peacock which makes good-natured fun of contemporary literary trends. Nightmare Abbey was Peacock's third long work of...
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Zealand politician Thomas Bevill Peacock (1812–1882), English physician Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), English author Tom Peacock (1912–?), English educator...
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the legendary Taliesin in the Book of Taliesin. The Victorian poet Thomas Love Peacock also wrote a poem entitled the Cauldron of Ceridwen. Later writers...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (section Free love)
to the village of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where Shelley's friend Thomas Love Peacock lived. The Shelley household included Claire and her baby Allegra...
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"Select Fables". Tonson and Draper – via Google Books. Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock. 2007 – via www.gutenberg.org. Pope's translation of the Odyssey...
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the Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works in northern Chile. Thomas Love Peacock wrote a ballad about Saint Laura in his work Gryll Grange. Commire...
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"The Four Ages of Poetry", an essay of 1820 by Thomas Love Peacock, was both a significant study of poetry in its own right, and the stimulus for the...
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"Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?" Thomas Love Peacock put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium...
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poets of the early nineteenth century, particularly Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later poets to adapt the hymns included...
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Crotchet Castle (category Novels by Thomas Love Peacock)
Castle is the sixth novel by Thomas Love Peacock, first published in 1831. As in his earlier novel Headlong Hall, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics...
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contemporary and friend Thomas Love Peacock. The poem is 720 lines long. It is considered to be one of the first of Shelley's major poems. Peacock suggested the...
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premiere in the summer of 2025, but it has not been officialy greenlit by Peacock. Love Island involves a group of contestants, referred to as Islanders, living...
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round plum, Then he cries, “What a Great Man am I!” Soon after, Thomas Love Peacock took up the theme in his satirical novel, Melincourt (1817). In Melincourt...
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19th century, resident writers and poets included Rider Haggard, Thomas Love Peacock, George Meredith, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who were attracted by...
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Monarchy into a mad kinde of Kakistocracy. Good Lord! English author Thomas Love Peacock later used the term in his 1829 novel The Misfortunes of Elphin,...
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creaking armor, salivating monks and thunderstorms, satirized by Thomas Love Peacock in his Crotchet Castle." Upon the death of her estranged biological...
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Headlong Hall (category Novels by Thomas Love Peacock)
novella by Thomas Love Peacock, his first long work of fiction, written in 1815 and published in 1816. As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles...
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Thomas Love Peacock, Nicholas A. Joukovsky The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock: 1792-1827 Chronology Garnett, Richard (1911). "Peacock, Thomas Love" ...
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Celinda Toobad, a character in the 1818 novel Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock Celinda (opera), by Errico Petrella (see Raffaele Mirate) This page...
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lived for some time in Marlow, attracted to the town by their friend Thomas Love Peacock who also lived there. John Milton lived in Chalfont St Giles and...
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expedition by skiff from Old Windsor to Lechlade by Charles Clairmont and Thomas Love Peacock. He subsequently settled at Marlow, where he regularly rowed his...
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Retrieved 21 August 2022 Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Love (1829). "1. The Prosperity of Gwaelod". The Misfortunes of Elphin. Thomas Hookham. pp. 240. Ashton...
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Mysteries, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock. A number of writers have pointed out Mary Shelley's familiarity...
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Melincourt (novel) (category Novels by Thomas Love Peacock)
Melincourt is the second novel of Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1817. It is based on the "idea of an orang-outang mimicking humanity" (see James Burnett...
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Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta. Peacock was the son of the poet Thomas Love Peacock and his wife Jane Gryffydh. In 1841 he was appointed...
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feast are referenced in Octavio Paz's poem, "I Speak of the City". Thomas Love Peacock mentions Trimalchio and Niceros in his preface to Rhododaphne (1818)...
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in 1979. Sharp was also a playwright. His stage version of the Thomas Love Peacock novel Nightmare Abbey was a big hit at the Westminster Theatre in 1952...
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a picture by Samuel Prout. In 1818 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Thomas Love Peacock: "This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty, except the...
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his friend Thomas Love Peacock, who worked for the East India Company, would recommend him for a position there. To Hogg's dismay Peacock would not help...
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