Thomas Love Peacock
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company (1785-1866) · Writers · Died at 80
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and they influenced each other's work.
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Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.