Thomas Love Peacock
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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. Peacock wrote satirical
Thomas Love Peacock by Henry Wallis
The young T. L. Peacock
Percy Bysshe Shelley
East India House in Leadenhall Street, London, 1817.
The Misfortunes of Elphin
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The Misfortunes of Elphin is an 1829 short historical romance by Thomas Love Peacock, set in 6th century Wales, which recounts the adventures of the bard Taliesin, the princes Elphin ap Gwythno and Se
Thomas Love Peacock
…Ellenborough. He opposed the employment of steamers on the Red Sea, probably in deference to the supposed interests of the company. In 1829 he published The Misfortunes of Elphin founded upon Welsh traditions, and in 1831 the novel Crotchet Castle, the most mature and thoroughly characteristic of all his works. He was greatly…
Title-page of the first edition
Angharad and Elphin find the baby Taliesin in a coracle. Illustration by F. H. Townsend (1897).