thomas love peacock
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Thomas Love Peacock is not, and never was, a popular author. He is for the scholar, the man of leisure, and the literary antiquarian, an abiding source of delight. He is not a professional novelist who sets out to tell a story and hurries along to get it told, but a leisured person, full of good sense and humour of a satirical kind, who adopts a mildly fictional form to discourse his opinions upon things like art, literature, politics, and wine. In this paper I will try to analyse one of his powerful proses, 'The Four Ages of Poetry'.
Thomas Love Peacock divided potry into four ages. At first he explains the qualities and the backgroud of the iron age. He states that poetry functions as a reaction to the reasons and serves accordind to the needs. The poetry of that age exists to praise the warriors who then become the chief and the king and is in the quest for the spread of their fame and a tool to increase their reputation. So the poet is only celebrating the image of the chiefs.
In accordance with this Peacock suggests that poetry has a panegyrical role...