ABSTRACT

Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was a novelist and poet and is best known for his satires—Headlong Hall, 1816, Nightmare Abbey, 1818, Crotchet Castle, 1831, and Gryll Grange, 1860. He collects a party of odd characters in a country house and lets them converse. Most of the well-known fìgures of the day are caricatured. Peacock was a great friend of Shelley who appears as Scythrop in Nightmare Abbey. Byron and Coleridge also appear as Mr. Cypress and Mr. Flosky.