Crotchet Castle

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Thomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth in 1785. His first poem, "e;The Genius of the Thames, "e; was in its second edition when he became one of the friends of Shelley. That was in 1812, when Shelley's age was twenty, Peacock's twenty-seven. The acquaintance strengthened, until Peacock became the friend in whose judgment Shelley put especial trust. There were many points of agreement. Peacock, at that time, shared, in a more practical way, Shelley's desire for root and branch reform; both wore poets, although not equally gifted, and both loved Plato and the Greek tragedians. In "e;Crotchet Castle"e; Peacock has expressed his own delight in Greek literature through the talk of the Reverend Dr. Folliott.