Henry Peacham (born 1546)

The Worth of a Peny , Henry Peacham the Elder 

For his son (both were English Renaissance writers), see

Henry Peacham (born 1578).

Henry Peacham (1546–1634), sometimes called Henry

Peacham the Elder, was an English  curate, best known

for his treatise on   rhetoric  entitled  The Garden of Elo-

quence, first published in 1577. He lived at  Leverton-

in-Holland, in Lincolnshire, and was the father of Henry

Peacham the Younger, who also became an author.[1]

1 Further reading

•  Shawn Smith, “Henry Peacham the Elder,” The Dic-

tionary 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. 503–507

Page from  Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises ,

1612

2 Notes

[1] Peacham, Henry (the Younger), 'Minerva Brittana (Lon-

don, 1612), p. 170, emblem “Zelus in Dream” 

3 References

•  Peacham, Henry (1954) [1593].  The Garden of Elo-

quence. Gainesville, Fla.: Softcover: Scholars’ Fac-

similes & Reprints. p. 280. Retrieved 2010-03-24.

4 External links

•  Henry Peacham,  The Garden of Eloquence  (at  silva

rhetoricae – A guide to rhetoric, by Dr. Gideon Bur-

ton, Brigham Young University).

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