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Known primarily as the author of the very popular Gormenghast novels (recently shown on PBS), Mervyn Peake's (1911-1968) poetry has for some time been widely read and appreciated in the eccentric tradition of Lear, Carroll, and Belloc. From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat, his verse can be enjoyed by all. This collection introduces us to a whole gallery of characters and creatures that are quirky and comical, occasionally alarming, but always magical.
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Mervyn Peake was the author of The Glassblowers, Gormenghast, The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb, Shapes and Sounds, Titus Alone, and Titus Groan. He was awarded the W. H. Heinemann Foundation Prize by the Royal Society of Literature in 1950.
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'Peake deserves a place among the eccentrics of the English tradition alongside Sterne, Blake, Lear, Carroll and Belloc.' - TLS 'He can try on the strangest clothes without losing his own strange identity... a genuinely haunted imagination which stamps everything he wrote or drew.' - GUARDIAN
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- Publication date1974
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). Reprint. 91pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. Poems illustrated with black-and-white drawings by the author. The book is thin and light; within Australia postage will be lowered to $4.50 upon receipt of order (you will be refunded) and the book will be sent via Australia Post domestic letter with tracking."Peake deserves a place among the eccentrics of the English tradition, alongside Sterne, Blake, Lear, Carroll and Belloc. How remarkably Peake foreshadowed the tragic philosopher-fool view of society that now so strongly appeals to the young." -- The Times Literary Supplement Size: 12mo. Seller Inventory # 007625
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