Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle

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THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
NIGHTMARE ABBEY CROTCHET CASTLE
EDITED BY RAYMOND WRIGHT
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too gay and good-natured, his novel too rambling, and his ideas too jovially destructive for the label to stick. A romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley, he happily made hay of the romantic movement in Nightmare Abbey, clamping Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in Crotchet Cast/e he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and the March of Mind. Vet the romantic in him never died: the longl witty, and indecisive talk of his characters is set in wild, natural scenery which Peacock describes with true feeling.
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The Penguin
English Library
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
NIGHTMARE ABBEY CROTCHET CASTLE
EDITED BY RAYMOND WRIGHT
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist. He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too gay and good-natured, his novel too rambling, and his ideas too jovially destructive for the label to stick. A romantic in his youth and a friend of Shelley, he happily made hay of the romantic movement in Nightmare Abbey, clamping Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley himself in a kind of painless pillory. And in Crotchet Cast/e he did no less for the political economists, pitting his gifts of exaggeration and ridicule against scientific progress and the March of Mind. Vet the romantic in him never died: the longl witty, and indecisive talk of his characters is set in wild, natural scenery which Peacock describes with true feeling.
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