Mervyn Peake
Birth date: July 09, 1911
Died: November 17, 1968
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I got this mainly for the illustrations - which are worth it - but the text strikes me as probably useful to beginners wishing to learn, if not exactly the bible of technique. On the other hand, I gave up sketching in my teens and I think I'll carry on taking photographs, instead...
I consider it pointless to compare Tolkien and Peake; you might as well argue whether Raymond Chandler is better than Ivy Compton-Burnett. I would only point out, since I believe no one has so far, that in Gormenghast, unlike Middle Earth, Sex exists. I also think Peake fits into the Gothic traditio...
Very brief and, frustratingly, contains all you really need to learn and improve. Don't believe me though - go off and suffer instead.
Very brief and, frustratingly, contains all you really need to learn and improve. Don't believe me though - go off and suffer instead.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, by R. W. MaslenA Note on the TextFurther Reading--Birth of Day--Vikings--Coloured Money--If I Could See, Not Surfaces--Palais de Danse--Rhondda Valley--Heaven Hires Me--The Metal Bird--The Cocky Walkers--Poplar--These Eyes Have Noosed a Hundred Hill...
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