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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"Peake deserves a place among the eccentrics of the English tradition alongside Sterne, Blake, Lear, Carroll and Belloc." —Times Literary Supplement
"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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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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A collection of overlooked gems by a literary giant,
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This review is from: Book of Nonsense (Hardcover)
Mervyn Peake, best known for his Gormenghast Trilogy, shows another side of his writing in this wonderful collection of poetry. These rhymes seem silly at first, but once you go over them a couple of times you realize that they are much more than nonsense. Also, even if you want to ignore the meanings of the poems, the artistry involved in the writing is delightful. Each word builds upon the last to create a complex structure that is wonderfully stimulating. I only give it an 8 out of 10 because it is a fairly short book, and everyone should read the Gormenghast Trilogy first anyway
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