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Henry Peacham (1546–1634), sometimes called Henry Peacham the Elder, was an English
''The Garden of Eloquence''
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silva rhetoricae
' – A guide to rhetoric, by Dr. Gideon Burton,
Henry Peacham (1546–1634), sometimes called Henry Peacham the Elder, was an English curate
A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...
, best known for his treatise on rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
entitled ''The Garden of Eloquence'', first published in 1577. He lived at Leverton-in-Holland, in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
, and was the father of Henry Peacham the Younger, who also became an author.Peacham, Henry (the Younger), ''Minerva Brittana'' (London, 1612), p. 170, emblem "Zelus in Dream"
Further reading
*Shawn Smith, "Henry Peacham the Elder," ''The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 236: British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500–1660, First Series'', Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 188–201. *Willard R. Espy, ''The Garden of Eloquence: A Rhetorical Bestiary'', New York: Dutton, 1983 *Alan R. Young, "Henry Peacham, Author of ''The Garden of Eloquence'' (1577): A Biographical Note," ''Notes and Queries'', vol. 24, 1977, pp. 503–507Notes
References
*External links
*Henry Peacham''The Garden of Eloquence''
(at
silva rhetoricae
' – A guide to rhetoric, by Dr. Gideon Burton,
Brigham Young University
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Rhetoric theorists
English writers
16th-century English writers
English male writers
1546 births
1634 deaths
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