Definition of thomas love peacock in English English dictionary
a British writer and poet who used satire (=a way of writing in which you make someone seem funny in order to show their faults) to criticize the politicians and writers of his time. His most famous works are novels such as Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey (1785-1866). born Oct. 18, 1785, Weymouth, Dorset, Eng. died Jan. 23, 1866, Lower Halliford, Middlesex English novelist and poet. For most of his life Peacock worked for the East India Co. He was a close friend of Percy B. Shelley, who greatly inspired his writing. His best verse is interspersed in his novels, which are dominated by the conversations of their characters and satirize the intellectual currents of the day. His best-known work, Nightmare Abbey (1818), satirizes romantic melancholy and includes characters based on Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron