The Four Ages of Poetry by Thomas Love Peacock.
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866: Peacock's Four ages of poetry, Shelley's Defence of poetry, Browning's Essay on Shelley, (Oxford, B. Blackwell, 1923), also by Robert Browning and Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by H. F. B. Brett-Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only).
Thomas Love Peacock is probably best known today for his hilarious Nightmare Abbey, which cheerfully satirizes the interest of contemporary literature in morbid subjects and gothic settings. Some of the targets of his broadly affectionate satire were significant literary figures in the early nineteenth century. Largely self-taught, but intellectually distinguished, he became a successful and.
Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith” “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry.
Peacock's satirical essay on the value of poetry, The Four Ages of Poetry (1820), provoked Shelley's famous Defence of Poetry. He also became Shelley's literary executor after his death. After a financial loss he took regular employment. He entered the East India Company's service and became in 1819 an assistant to the Examiner at India House. The next year he married Jane Gryffydh, to whom he.
Similarly in A Defense of Poetry, Shelley attempts to establish poetry’s place in a rapidly changing, industrialized world. He wrote his defense in response to Thomas Love Peacock’s The Four Ages of Poetry, which urged great minds to stop wasting their time with humanities, especially poetry, and put their intellectual efforts toward the newly emerging sciences.
Thomas Love Peacock was born in 1785, in Dorset, at Weymouth. He was the son of a glass merchant, who died three years after he was born. He was raised at his grandfather's house in Chertsey, by his mother. Despite the fact that his formal schooling ended before his teens (he never attended a university), it is important to note that he read widely in five languages throughout his lifetime.
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poetry. Miscellanies. Four Ages of Poetry. Horae Dramaticae, No. 1-3. Shelley. Shelley Letters by.