Thomas Love Peacock

by J. I. M. Stewart

'Peacock is one of our greatest creators of the fantastic. And here was the fantastic created for him by God.' So the essayist refers to the Memoirs of Shelley which appeared in Fraser's Magazine, and earlier he reminds us that Peacock's Four Ages of Poetry 'provoked the writing of Shelley's famous Defence'. Shelley was his friend, Meredith, his son-in-law, and Coleridge his butt in the satires which have made him immortal as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582011566
• ISBN13: 9780582011564
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 36 Pages