Thomas Love Peacock, satirist, essayist, and poet, was a close friend of Shelley and played an important part in the "Romantic Movement" of the early 19th century. Headlong Hall and Gryll Grange are the first and last of Peacock's highly distinctive satirical novels.
Peacock deserves a far wider readership. The modesty of a man whose books could have been dressed up as classics but were left as the iridescent sports they are is awesome. Wholly satisfying, these anticipate Joyce's and look back to Sterne's comprehensive neutrality. Gryll Grange: greatest novel of the nineteenth century? Certainly the subtlest intellectually.
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