Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (born 1785)

Thomas Love Peacock

English novelist and poet (1785-1866)

Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and…