Mervyn peake biography sampler

          Mervyn peake glassblowers poem

        1. Mervyn peake glassblowers poem
        2. Official site of Mervyn Peake and Gormennghast.
        3. Mervyn peake poems
        4. Mervyn Peake was born in in revolutionary China, where his parents were missionaries.
        5. It contains samples from every period of his, well, progress through his career, both of drawings and writings, the latter ranging from a charming little.

          6. Mervyn peake poems!

          Mervyn Peake, the Official Site

          Illustration

          In Mervyn Peake’s talk broadcast by the BBC in September 1947, he describes how he became diverted from painting to book illustration: “All my life I have been painting and making drawings, but I only started illustrating books after I was conscripted in 1940.”

          Asked to illustrate The Hunting of the Snark in 1941, he set out to study as many notable drawings by other illustrators as he could, these to act as a basis for his technique: Hogarth, Cruickshank, Durer, Blake, Dore, Goya and many others were rigorously scrutinised.

          He held a writer’s respect for other writers when asked to illustrate this and other books, and felt that when accepting the work, he should “subordinate myself totally to the book, and slide into another man’s soul”.

          The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

          For his illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published in 1943, he used a fine cross-hatching style which was