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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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