Peter Bayley (poet)

Peter Bayley (baptised 1 September 1778 – 25 January 1823) was an English writer and poet.

Subsequently, he turned his attention to literature, and became editor of the Museum, a weekly periodical.

Bayley published a volume of poems in 1803, and, besides contributing occasional verses to periodicals, printed for private circulation, at an early period, several specimens of an epic poem founded on the conquest of Wales, which appeared posthumously in 1824 under the title of 'Idwal.'

In 1820, under the pseudonym of Giorgione di Castel Chiuso, he published a volume of verse, entitled Sketches from St George's-in-the-Fields, containing clever and graphic descriptions of various phases of London life and therefore possessing now considerable antiquarian and social interest.

A posthumous volume of Poetry by Bayley was published in 1824, and on 20 April 1825 a tragedy, Orestes, left by him in manuscript, was brought out at Covent Garden with Charles Kemble in the principal part, one of the most successful of Kemble's impersonations.