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Madden, L. A short guide to Peacock studies. Critical Survey 4, 1970.
Ward, W. S. In his Literary reviews in British periodicals 1798–1820:
a bibliography, 2 vols New York 1972. Also in his Literary
reviews . . . 1821–1826, New York 1977.
Gooch, B. N. S. and D. S. Thatcher. In their Musical settings of early
and mid-Victorian literature: a catalogue, New York 1979.
Prance, C. A. The characters in the novels of Thomas Love Peacock,
1785–1866, with bibliographical lists. Lewiston NY 1992.
Donovan, J. P. Thomas Love Peacock. In Literature of the Romantic
period: a bibliographical guide, ed M. O’Neill, Oxford 1998.
Collections and selections
Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, Maid Marian, Crotchet Castle,
‘with corrections, and a preface, by the author’. No 57 of Bentley’s
Standard Novels 1837. Preface signed The author of Headlong
Hall, dated 4 Mar 1837. Various authorities mention an 1849
reprint, but this appears to be a ghost. Bentley’s plates were purchased
by Ward & Lock in Feb 1856 and used for separate edns of
Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey, 1856 (below), and Maid
Marian and Crotchet Castle, 1856 (below), as well as an edn of all 4
novels, listed in Athenaeum, 7 Aug 1858 (no known copies).
reviews: Guide, 22 Apr 1837; Examiner, 28 May 1837.
[Selected poetry]. In Inheritors of unfulfilled renown, [ed T.
L’Estrange], Belfast [1866?] (preface dated Christmas Eve 1865)
(priv ptd). Anon. Texts of Peacock’s poetry often altered by
L’Estrange to include Belfast place names. Only known copy in a
private collection.
The works of Thomas Love Peacock, including his novels, poems,
fugitive pieces, criticisms etc, with a preface by the Right Hon.
Lord Houghton, a biographical notice by his granddaughter,
Edith Nicolls, and portrait. Ed H. Cole 3 vols 1875. Vols 1–2
Novels; vol 3 Poetry and miscellanea. A 4th vol was projected in
1879 but not pbd. Epitaph on Margaret Love Peacock (pbd in
Nicolls’s notice), independently ptd in Dickens’s Dictionary of
the Thames, from Oxford to the Nore, 1880 (from tombstone in
Shepperton churchyard) (anon); tr Latin by E. D. A. Morshead,
Westminster versions, ed H. F. Fox, Oxford 1906.
reviews: [N. McColl] Athenaeum, 26 Dec 1874, 9 Jan 1875; (R.
G[arnett]), Examiner, 23, 30 Jan 1875; Standard, 2 Feb 1875;
Spectator, 6 Feb 1875; Saturday Rev, 20 Feb 1875; (J. Davies),
Contemporary Rev, Apr 1875; [A. I. Shand] Edinburgh Rev 142,
July 1875.
[Novels, with Calidore and miscellanea]. Ed R. Garnett 10 vols ‘1891’
[1891–2]. Introd to Headlong Hall rptd in Garnett’s Essays of an
ex-librarian, 1901; also in EL edn of Headlong Hall and
Nightmare Abbey, [1908].
[Novels and Rhododaphne]. Introds by G. Saintsbury, illustr F. H.
Townsend, except Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey, illustr
H. R. Millar, 5 vols 1895–7 (Macmillan’s Illus Standard Novels),
rptd 1927 (Macmillan’s Illus Pocket Classics). Maid Marian and
Crotchet Castle, rptd 1955 (Macmillan’s Pocket Lib). Introds rptd
in Saintsbury’s Prefaces and essays, 1933.
Songs from the novels. Ed R. B. Johnson [1902].
Novels. 1903.
Works [novels]. 2 vols [1905–6] (New Universal Lib).
Poems. Ed R. B. Johnson [1906] (ML and New Universal Lib).
The plays of Thomas Love Peacock, published for the first time. Ed
A. B. Young 1910.
[Selections]. Ed W. H. Helm [1911] (Regent Lib).
The Halliford edn of The works of Thomas Love Peacock. Ed H. F. B.
Brett-Smith and C. E. Jones 10 vols 1924–34. Vol 1 Biographical
introd and Headlong Hall, 1934; vol 2 Melincourt, 1924; vol 3
Nightmare Abbey and Maid Marian, 1924; vol 4 The misfortunes
of Elphin and Crotchet Castle, 1924; vol 5 Gryll Grange, 1924; vol
6 Poems, 1927; vol 7 Poems and plays, 1931; vol 8 Essays, memoirs,
letters and unfinished novels, 1934; vol 9 Critical and other
essays, 1926; vol 10 Dramatic criticisms and trns and other essays,
1926. Detailed bibl and textual notes at the end of each novel or
vol. General indexes, addenda and corrigenda in vol 1. Indexes to
verse in vol 7. Details of excluded, lost, doubtful and alien works
in vol 8 appendix 6.
Selections. Ed H. F. B. Brett-Smith 1928.
Three novels: Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, Crotchet Castle.
Introd by J. Mair 1940 (Nelson Classics).
The pleasures of Peacock. Ed B. R. Redman, New York 1947.
Novels. Ed D. Garnett 1948, 2 vols 1963 (corrected).
A Peacock selection. Ed H. L. B. Moody 1966 (Macmillan’s Eng
Classics).
Novels: Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, The misfortunes of
Elphin, Crotchet Castle. Introd by J. B. Priestley, notes by B. Lloyd
Evans 1967 (Pan Bestsellers of Lit).
Memoirs of Shelley and other essays and reviews. Ed H. Mills 1970.
Nightmare Abbey, The misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle. Ed
C. B. Dodson, New York 1971 (Rinehart Edns).
§1
Answer to the question, Is history or biography the more improving
study? by Master T. L. Peacock, aged 14. The monthly preceptor:
or juvenile library, pt 1, Feb 1800; monthly pts re-issued as The
juvenile library (later The juvenile encyclopaedia), 6 vols 1800–3.
Poem, awarded an ‘extra prize’ in an essay contest.
The monks of St Mark.‘1804’ [1805?] (priv ptd). 8° halfsheet ptd in
same style and presumably at same time as the Palmyra volume,
below. 2 known copies, both NYPL. Poem followed by initials
T.L.P. and date Sep 1804, but this was date of composition, not of
printing. See Joukovsky, 1994, Letters and papers, below.
Palmyra and other poems, by T. L. Peacock.‘1806’ [1805], 1812 (with
The genius of the Thames, below) (extensively rev); The old man’s
complaint adapted (as Words of an old man) [by T. L’Estrange],
Verses and metrical translations, Belfast 1866 (priv ptd) (only
known copy in a private collection).
reviews: Literary Jnl, Dec 1805; Monthly Mag suppl, 31 Jan 1806;
Br Critic, Feb 1806; Critical Rev, Feb 1806; [Moody, C. L.] Monthly
Rev, Mar 1806; Lady’s Monthly Museum, June 1806; Br Critic, Jan
1808; Literary Annual Register, Mar 1808; Poetical Register for
1806–7 (pbd 1811).
The genius of the Thames: a lyrical poem in two parts, by Thomas
Love Peacock. 1810, 1812 (with Palmyra and other poems, below)
(rev); Stanzas written at sea, set to music by W. A. Nield [1816] (as
The harbour of peace).
reviews: Br Critic, Aug 1810; Satirist, Aug 1810; Antijacobin Rev,
Sep 1810; GM, Oct 1810; Critical Rev, Dec 1810; Monthly Mag
suppl, 31 Jan 1811; Eclectic Rev, Feb 1811; [Hodgson, F.] Monthly
Rev, June 1811; Satirist, Dec 1811 (excerpts from other revs);
Poetical Register for 1810–11 (pbd 1814).
The genius of the Thames, Palmyra and other poems, by T. L.
Peacock, ‘second edition’. 1812, 1817 (re-issued with only title and
contents pp. reset).
review: [Hodgson, F.] Monthly Rev, Mar 1813.
The philosophy of melancholy: a poem in four parts, with a mythological
ode, by T. L. Peacock. 1812.
reviews: Critical Rev, Mar 1812; Antijacobin Rev, Apr 1812;
Eclectic Rev, Oct 1812; New Rev, Feb 1813; New Annual Register for
1812 (pbd 1813).
Αναπαιστοι. [c. 1812–13?] (priv ptd) (anon) (no known copies), rptd
in T. Forster prolegomena to his Philosophia musarum, Bruges
‘1845’ [prolegomena dated 27 Feb 1846] (anon). Greek anapestic
ode. See Joukovsky, 1992, §2 below.
Sir Hornbook, or Childe Launcelot’s expedition: a grammaticoallegorical
ballad, [illustr H. Corbould].‘1814’ [1813] (anon), 1815
(‘second edition’), 1815 (‘third edition’), 1817 (‘fourth edition’),
1818 (‘fifth edition’); ed ‘Felix Summerly’ [H. Cole] with illustra-