“As to writing poetry, or doing anything else that is rational in this floating Inferno, it is almost next to a moral impossibility.”
About 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…