Talk:Thomas Love Peacock
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Is the illiterate bit about the deodorant true? Meanwhile, I shall attempt to improve it.Rothorpe 22:47, 23 January 2007 (UTC) Indeed, further investigation shows it to be complete nonsense, so have removed it Rothorpe 22:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism
"Peacock's own place in literature is pre-eminently that of a satirist. That he has nevertheless been the favourite only of the few is owing partly to the highly intellectual quality of his work, but mainly to his lack of ordinary qualifications of the novelist, all pretension to which he entirely disclaims. He has no plot, little human interest, and no consistent delineation of character. His personages are mere puppets, or, at best, incarnations of abstract qualities such as grace or beauty.
His comedy is Aristophanic. He suffers from that dramatist's faults and, though not as daring in invention, shares many of his strengths."
OK, who wrote that massively POV passage? It has no place in a Wikipedia article. Even if it were entirely fair to Peacock (which I don't think it is), it would still belong in the realm of opinion. It badly needs fixing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.189.81.245 (talk) 15:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
