Thomas Love Peacock — a remark

From the V2Melody quotations library — share the card, then explore the poet and poems below.

“A poet in our time is a semi-barbarian in a civilized community.”

A sharp criticism of poets who idealise the past and resist the habits of modern society · Essay, The Four Ages of Poetry

About Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock

18 October 1785–23 January 1866

Thomas Love Peacock was born on 18 October 1785 at Weymouth, Dorset, a coastal town whose mixture of fashionable society, maritime activity, and open sea offered an early imaginative setting for a writer who would remain drawn throughout his life to rivers, voyages, landscapes, and the contrast between civilized…

More by Thomas Love Peacock

Poems by Thomas Love Peacock

All poems by this poet

Poet page · All remarks · Quotations hub

Skip to main content