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 republished in a significantly altered form in 1593. The Garden of Eloquence is one of the most comprehensive collections of rhetorical figures produced in the Renaissance. Although the work has had its fair share of critics, such as Wilbur S. Howell, who in his Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700 (1956) describes it as an "interminable enumeration of stylistic devices" that appears "more concerned with the husks than with the kernels of style," some recent attempts have been made to present the work in a more favorable light, such as Brian Vickers's "`The Power of Persuasion': Images of the Orator, Elyot to Shakespeare" (1983) and In Defence of Rhetoric (1988). Peacham had a successful career in the church...