“Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas...
✒ #ThomasLovePeacock, English poet and novelist, #DOTD 23 January 1866. #Literature
#Poem of the week: "Rich or Poor, or Saint and Sinner" by #ThomasLovePeacock
A sharply satirical attack on unevenly applied 19th-century laws to enforce religious observance still bites today
#Poetry #Literature
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“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas...
✒️ #ThomasLovePeacock, English poet and novelist, was #BOTD 18 October 1785. #Poetry #Literature
No knock against the German language; I enjoyed my two semesters of it in college, but all I can recall now is "Ich kann Fledermäuse mit einem Eierlöffel töten," which is not only magnificently useless, but patently untrue!
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Maid Marian & The Misfortunes of Elphin by Thomas Love Peacock from P-Wave Press
✨ We’re thrilled to reveal the next P-Wave Classic: Maid Marian & The Misfortunes of Elphin by Thomas Love Peacock! Out 4 Sept., available on NetGalley & for pre-order now. Join us in celebrating timeless satire! 📖 #PWaveClassics #ThomasLovePeacock p-wavepress.co.uk/blog/files/m...
Fascinating podcast from the @londonreview.bsky.social on a classic by #ThomasLovePeacock. Look out for our own all-new edition of Crochet Castle & Gryll Grange later this year. #ClassicLiterature #PWavePress #PWaveClassics www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Truth Against the World from The Mistfortunes of Elphin by Thomas Love Peacock
An apposite quote from Thomas Love Peacock: "There was no liberty of the press...but there was liberty of speech to the bards...and the general motto of their order was y Gwir yn erbyn y Byd: the Truth Against the World. #quote #ClassicLiterature #ThomasLovePeacock #booksky
“Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas...
✒ #ThomasLovePeacock, English poet and novelist, #DOTD 23 January 1866. #Literature
