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    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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    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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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    "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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  • "Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?" Thomas Love Peacock put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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