Peacock as a satirist at the point of view of R. J. Rees

Thomas Love Peacock:-

             Thomas Love Peacock grew up in the air of romantic revival. There were three things in the Romantic view of life which Peacock thought absurd when carried to extremes:

2. Found particularly in Coleridge and Wordsworth, which presents vague philosophical idea of pantheism. It describes that God and Nature are the same. Poets and thinkers draw their inspiration from the Nature.

2. An exaggerated love of the medieval and the supernatural of Mrs. Radcliffe and Scott.

3. Peacock noticed the passion for "reforming the world" in his contemporaries Shelley, Godwin, Bentham and J. S. Mill.

         Peacock was old-fashioned and reactionary in his views. He often make fun of the excesses of reformers.

         Peacock wrote his satire in the form of novels; but his novels are very different from what is usually understood by the word.