Henry Peacham (born 1546)

The Worth of a Peny, Henry Peacham the Elder

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

Page from Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises,
Henry Peacham (born 1578).
1612

Henry Peacham (15461634), sometimes called Henry

Peacham the Elder, was an English curate, best known
for his treatise on rhetoric entitled The Garden of Eloquence, rst published in 1577. He lived at Levertonin-Holland, in Lincolnshire, and was the father of Henry
Peacham the Younger, who also became an author.[1]

2 Notes
[1] Peacham, Henry (the Younger), 'Minerva Brittana (London, 1612), p. 170, emblem Zelus in Dream

3 References

Further reading

Peacham, Henry (1954) [1593]. The Garden of Eloquence. Gainesville, Fla.: Softcover: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints. p. 280. Retrieved 2010-03-24.

Shawn Smith, Henry Peacham the Elder, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 236: British
Rhetoricians and Logicians, 15001660, First Series,
Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 188201.
Willard R. Espy, The Garden of Eloquence: A
Rhetorical Bestiary, New York: Dutton, 1983

4 External links

Alan R. Young, Henry Peacham, Author of The

Garden of Eloquence (1577): A Biographical Note,
Notes and Queries, vol. 24, 1977, pp. 503507

Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence (at silva

rhetoricae A guide to rhetoric, by Dr. Gideon Burton, Brigham Young University).
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