Peacock's Memoirs of Shelley, With Shelley's Letters to Peacock

by Thomas Love Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley, H.F.B. Brett-Smith (Creator)

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260 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1909

About the author

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) was an English novelist and poet. For most of his life, Peacock worked for the East India Co. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who greatly inspired his writing. His best verse is interspersed in his novels, which are dominated by the conversations of their characters and satirize the intellectual currents of the day. His best-known work, Nightmare Abbey (1818), satirizes romantic melancholy and includes characters based on Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron.

Reviews

[K.J. Cleetus · Rating 5 out of 5]

A service Thomas Love Peacock did to his estimable friend, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, is to have published this volume Peacock’s Memoirs of Shelley, with Shelley’s letters to Peacock.
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It contains 34 letters of Shelley to him (p.94 onward), long interesting letters, written with care, and often with critical appreciation of art and literature. Wonderful travel writing too from his sojourn in Europe. It is written in a lively conversational style, and you wish Shelley's letters would not end. Please read and derive pleasure in the company of a humane and discerning artist.