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A Thomas Love Peacock Miscellany
By Richard Garnett, Edward Strachey and Thomas Love Peacock.
Narrated by Graham Scott, Alan Weyman, Denis Daly and Rachel May.
Thomas Love Peacock is today remembered as the author of seven satirical novels which many regard merely as literary curiosities. However, he was also a man of considerable learning, a skilled poet and an astute literary critic.
Recollections of Thomas Love Peacock is an affectionate reminiscence by Sir Edward Strachey who had become familiar with Peacock during the latter's period of service at the India House.
Some Recollections of Childhood provides a window into Peacock's early youth, and displays his keen powers of observation and his fascination with the world of nature. While Peacock's early years were not particularly easy, the memoir is completely free of any tinge of bitterness or regret.
In "Four Ages of Poetry" Peacock pokes gentle fun at his great contemporaries Wordsworth, Southey and Shelley, while providing a thought provoking analysis of the birth, growth and decay of poetry.
"The Last Day of Windsor Forest" is an old man's recollection of an episode memorable in the history of a place where much of his life had been passed, and for which he had a particular love. It was probably the last piece that Peacock wrote.
