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During his lifetime, Mervyn Peake was best known for his novels about "Titus Groan", "the Gormenghast trilogy", and his illustrations of "Treasure Island", "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and other classics. After his death, his widow published a collection of nonsense poems which became one of the best-loved volumes of modern nonsense, taking their place alongside that of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. Published to mark the centenary of Peake's birth in 1911, "Complete Nonsense" includes over ninety poems, together with "The Adventures of Footfruit", a narrative in poetic prose. Twenty four poems have never been published before, some of them substantial; several that have been published have appeared only in specialist journals. This delightful book is enhanced with wild and wonderful illustrations here reproduced, in black and white and in colour, in an exhilarating display of complementary vocations. It is a book of rare surprises and hearty laughter, and a companion to his essential "Collected Poems" (Carcanet, 2008).
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Mervyn Peake(1911-1968) was born in China and moved to England in 1923. He attended the Royal Academy Schools in the 1930s. During World War II he served with the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. During this period he began writing Titus Groan, the first of the 'Gormenghast' novels. Four collections of poems were published during his lifetime. In 2008 Carcanet published a landmark edition of Peake's Collected Poems. Peter Winnington has published an acclaimed Peake biography and edits the periodical Peake Studies. R.W. Maslen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He edited Peake's Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2008).
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