Thomash Love Peacock

Thomash Love Peacock

The four ages of Poetry (1820)

Published in the journal 'Literary Miscellany '

In this essay, he wrote about the gradual origin and development of poetry in four ages: age of Iron; Age of Gold; Age of Silver; Age of Brass .

Poetry originated in the Iron age.
The Golden age was the age of the noblest poetic productions.

In the silver age (artificial) the poems imitate the Golden age.

The Brass age was the age of poetic decay and decline.

The current brass era was marked, according to Peacock, by poems of " Verbose and minutely -detailed description of thoughts, passions, actions, persons, and things."

Peacock in this essay defined the poet as 'a semi- barbarian in a civilised community '.

# Essays
The four ages of Poetry (1820)

Recollections of childhood: The Abbey House(1837)

Memoirs of Shelley (1858-62)

The Last Day of Windsor Forest (1887)

# Novels

Headlong Hall (1815)

Melincourt(1817)

Nightmare Abbey (1818)

Maid Marian (1822)

The Misfortune of Elphin(1829)

Crotchet Castle (1831)

Gryll Grange (1861)


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