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== Works == Peacock's own place in literature is pre-eminently that of a satirist. That he has nevertheless been the favourite only of the few is owing partly to the highly intellectual quality of his work,{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}} but mainly to his lack of ordinary qualifications of the novelist, all pretension to which he entirely disclaims. He has no plot, little human interest, and no consistent delineation of character. His personages are mere puppets, or, at best, incarnations of abstract qualities such as grace or beauty, but beautifully depicted. His comedy combines the mock-[[Gothic fiction|Gothic]] with the [[Aristophanes|Aristophanic]]. He suffers from that dramatist's faults and, though not as daring in invention or as free in the use of sexual humour, shares many of his strengths. His greatest intellectual love is for Ancient Greece, including late and minor works such as the ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' of [[Nonnus]]; many of his characters are given punning names taken from Greek to indicate their personality or philosophy. He tended to dramatize where traditional novelists narrated; he is more concerned with the interplay of ideas and opinions than of feelings and emotions; his ''dramatis personae'' is more likely to consist of a cast of more or less equal characters than of one outstanding hero or heroine and a host of minor auxiliaries; his novels have a tendency to approximate the [[Classical unities]], with few changes of scene and few if any subplots; his novels are novels of conversation rather than novels of action; in fact, Peacock is so much more interested in what his characters say to one another than in what they do to one another that he often sets out entire chapters of his novels in dialogue form. [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'' is the literary ancestor of these works, by way of the ''[[Deipnosophists]]'' of [[Athenaeus]], in which the conversation relates less to exalted philosophical themes than to the points of a good fish dinner. === Novels === * ''[[Headlong Hall]]'' (published 1815 but dated 1816) [revised slightly, 1837] * ''[[Melincourt (novel)|Melincourt]]'' (1817) * ''[[Nightmare Abbey]]'' (1818) [revised slightly, 1837] * ''[[Maid Marian (novel)|Maid Marian]]'' (1822) * ''[[The Misfortunes of Elphin]]'' (1829) * ''[[Crotchet Castle]]'' (1831) [revised slightly, 1837] * ''[[Gryll Grange]]'' (1861) [serialised first during 1860] === Verse === * ''The Monks of St. Mark'' (1804) * ''Palmyra and other Poems'' (1805) * ''The Genius of the Thames: a Lyrical Poem'' (1810) * ''The Genius of the Thames Palmyra and other Poems'' (1812) * ''The Philosophy of Melancholy'' (1812) * ''Sir Hornbook, or Childe Launcelot's Expedition'' (1813) * ''Sir Proteus: a Satirical Ballad'' (1814) * ''The Round Table, or King Arthur's Feast'' (1817) * ''Rhododaphne: or the Thessalian Spirit'' (1818) * ''Paper Money Lyrics'' (1837) * "The War-Song of Dinas Vawr" (in ''The Misfortunes of Elphin'', 1829)<ref> {{cite book | last1 = Peacock | first1 = Thomas Love | author-link1 = Thomas Love Peacock | chapter = 9: The Heroes of Dinas Vawr | title = The Misfortunes of Elphin | year = 1829 | url = https://archive.org/details/misfortuneselph02peacgoog | location = London | publisher = Thomas Hookham | publication-date = 1829 | page = [https://archive.org/details/misfortuneselph02peacgoog/page/n155 141]-143 | access-date = 20 February 2020 }} </ref> === Essays === * ''The Four Ages of Poetry'' (1820) * ''Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House'' (1837) * ''Memoirs of Shelley'' (1858β62) * ''The Last Day of Windsor Forest'' (1887) [composed 1862] * ''Prospectus: Classical Education'' === Plays === * ''The Three Doctors'' * ''The Dilettanti'' * ''Gl'Ingannati, or The Deceived'' (translated from the Italian, 1862) === Unfinished tales and novels === * ''Satyrane'' (c. 1816) * ''Calidore'' (c. 1816) * ''The Pilgrim of Provence'' (c. 1826) * ''The Lord of the Hills'' (c. 1835) * ''Julia Procula'' (c. 1850) * ''A Story Opening at Chertsey'' (c. 1850) * ''A Story of a Mansion among the Chiltern Hills'' (c. 1859) * ''Boozabowt Abbey'' (c. 1859) * ''Cotswald Chace'' (c. 1860)
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