Henry Peacham proudly declared in his Graphice (1612): "By profession I am a Scholler." For Peacham the term Scholler seems to have meant someone dedicated to a wide range of scholarly pursuits, inclu...
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Frequently overshadowed by the fame of the son who shares his name, the elder Henry Peacham is remembered today as the author of The Garden of Eloquence, which was first published in 1577 and then rep...
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Henry Peacham, who served the Church of England as a clergyman for more than six decades, is known for a single work, The Garden of Eloquence Conteyning the Figures of Grammer and Rhetorick, a rhetori...
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Henry Peacham