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‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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Subjects:
- Myself When Young 1948 single work autobiography
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony 1917 single work novel
- Lucinda Brayford 1946 single work novel
- The Man Who Loved Children 1940 single work novel
- For Love Alone 1944 single work novel
- The Aunt's Story 1948 single work novel
- Dreamhouse 1986 single work novel
- The Eye of the Storm 1973 single work novel
- March 2005 single work novel
- Schindler's Ark 1982 single work novel
- Sons of the Rumour 2009 single work novel
- Dead Birds 2007 single work novel
- The Dirty Beat 2007 single work novel
- The Reading Group 1988 single work novel
- The Philosopher's Doll 2004 single work novel
- Landscape with Animals 2006 single work novel
- The Lake Woman : A Romance 2009 single work novel
- The Boys Who Stole the Funeral : A Novel Sequence 1980 single work novel
- Fredy Neptune 1998 single work novel
- Blood and Old Belief : A Verse Novel 2003 single work novel
- The Lovemakers : Book One : Saying All the Great Sexy Things 2001 single work novel
- The Nightmarkets : A Novel 1986 sequence novel
- Jack 2006 single work novel
- Lawrie and Shirley, The Final Cadenza : A Movie in Verse 2006 single work novel
- The Monkey's Mask 1994 single work novel
- El Dorado 2007 single work novel
- The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke 1915 selected work poetry
- Stray Dog Winter 2008 single work novel
- Truth 2009 single work novel
- The Hand that Signed the Paper 1994 single work novel
- Johnno : A Novel 1975 single work novel
- An Imaginary Life : A Novel 1978 single work novel
- The Zookeeper's War 2007 single work novel
- The Boat 2008 selected work short story
- Dog Boy 2009 single work novel
- Traitor 2010 single work novel
- The Vintage and the Gleaning 2008 single work novel
- When Colts Ran 2010 single work novel
- Blue Skies 1976 single work novel
- Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel
- Careless 2006 single work novel
- The Good Parents 2008 single work novel
- One Foot Wrong 2008 single work novel
- Campaign Ruby 2010 single work novel
- Burning In 2007 single work novel
- The Street Sweeper 2011 single work novel
- Spirit House 2011 single work novel
- Power Without Glory : A Novel in Three Parts 1950 single work novel
- In-Human 2010 single work novel
- Watch out for Me 2011 single work novel
- The Body in the Clouds 2010 single work novel
- Affection : A Novel 2005 single work novel
- The Legacy 2010 single work novel
- The Life : A Novel 2011 single work novel
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