Thomas Love Peackock [FIRST AMERICAN EDITION] [VINTAGE 1966]

Priestley, J.B.

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1966

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition blue boards with gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Preface by J.B. Priestley; Introduction by J.I.M. Stewart and Index. "Peacock's airy wit and urbanity have an appeal above and beyond their value as instruments of satire. The delight of perceiving Wordsworth, not too heavily disguised, in the character of Mr. Wilful Wontsee, or Southey in the guise of Mr. Rumblesack Shantsee, is not the whole of our pleasure in his writing, though it is true that, with Peacock, we often need the help of the editor and commentator. Even when he is satirizing absurdities in themselves ephemeral, Peacock has the knack of writing something of perennial point; he is the master of the sheerly freakish, with a delight in the fantastic and the monomaniacal, but equally a master of incisive prose, a prose in which there echoes now the elegance of Addison, now a measured gravity which stems from Johnson and the English moralists. J.B. Priestley's study, newly introduced for this edition by a lengthy and sparkling essay by J.I.M. Stewart, is a most valuable work; Mr. Priestley writes with a lively awareness of the mercurial talent which is his subject, and his book remains one of the very few modern critical studies of Peacock - an author who rarely gets the attention he deserves for his place in the Romantic movement." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 008646

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Thomas Love Peackock [FIRST AMERICAN EDITION...

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1966

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition