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- English
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A Book of Verse by Thomas Love Peacock
About this book
This vintage book contains a wonderful collection of beautiful poetry by English poet and novelist Thomas Love Peacock. The poems include: "The Satirists and Fantastics", "The Legend of Saint Laura", "The Monks of St. Mark", "Ballad Terzetto", "The Morning of Love", "The Sundial", "The Magic Bark", "The Round Table", "Beyond the Sea", "Duet", "A Glee", "A Fragment", "Love and Age", "Newark Abbey", "Sir Hornbook", "There is a Fever of the Spirit", and many more. Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English poet, novelist, and important figure in the East India Company. A good friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, they both had a significant influence on each other's work. Peacock was most famous for writing satirical novels, which usually involved characters sat around a table discussing contemporary philosophical ideas. This collection is not to be missed by lovers of English poetry and those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author. Other notable works by this author include: "Headlong Hall" (1815), "Gryll Grange" (1861), and "Melincourt" (1817). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with intoductory essays by Sir Walter Raleigh and Virginia Woolf.
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Table of contents
- Thomas Love Peacock
- The Satirists and Fantastics
- The Legend of Saint Laura
- The Monks of St. Mark
- Glee---The Ghosts
- Ballad Terzetto
- The Flower of Love
- Terzetto
- The Morning of Love
- The Sundial
- Quintetto
- The Magic Bark
- THE ROUND TABLE
- Palmyra
- Palmyra
- Beyond the Sea
- A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day
- Castles in the Air
- Duet
- A Fragment
- A Glee
- I Dug, Beneath a Cypress Shade
- Instead of Sitting Wrapped up in Flannel
- Life's Uncertain Day
- Lines on the Death of Julia
- Love and Age
- Margaret Love Peacock
- Newark Abbey
- Rich & Poor; or Saint & Sinner
- There is a Fever of the Spirit
- SIR HORNBOOK