Talk:Mervyn Peake

message: What does Fantasist Realist mean? Google doesn't know; this is the only reference. Yeah, Middle-Earth is more mythic than Gormenghast, but I don't see how we can quantify that one's more recognisable than the other or "firmly" locate the Titus books outside fantasy unless we're defining fantasy much more narrowly than the common usage.
The trilogy is just that! The reference to the three published books as a trilogy is not erroneous! Oxford states that a trilogy is A group of three dramatic or literary works related in subject or theme. --^pirate 23:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have always classified this series as a fantasy. There's no magic or nonhuman races, but there aren't in Islandia (book) either. People only think fantasy has to have magic and elves because of Tolkien. Edgar Rice Burroughs' fantasy novels about Tarzan and about the cave people didn't have any, nor does Jean Auel's books about the cave people (although it depicts them believing in magic, you also see that a lot of their "magic" is common sense).  To think that fantasy literature de rigeur requires magic and nonhumans is to limit the power of fantasy itself. --Bluejay Young 16:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: comments

message: This article has no pictures and is just a block of text. Could some one add some Fwed66 16:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears this has long been resolvedKerdooskis (talk) 22:50, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: There is no mention that John Constable's stage adaptation precedes the Glass ensemble tour and that the first stage production was at the Bradford Alhambra Theatre, Bradford (UK)in 1992 http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/constable-john.html. If no-one objects I will add this and reference to the entry.
81.108.132.48 (talk) 10:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Dramatic adaptations of Peake's work

message: The article on his wife Maeve Gilmore has been nominated for deletion.  You can vote to keep the article on the notable painter, sculptor and wife of Mervyn Peake.
Btw, you might wonder where the perfectly good article on Peake's notable granddaughter Florence Peake - that has also been deleted, despite being notable.  Unfortunately I couldn't defend that one because I'd been disgracefully banned for "vandalism".  Note I have never vandalised anything! Flying Fische (talk) 17:26, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Please consider Wikipedia:Meat puppetry. While it's a failed proposal, it is ostensibly bad faith to recruit others to support your own editing. Mephtalk 17:30, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, I disagree, it's not a failed proposal until it's deleted, and it's all part of a rather pathetic concerted attempt to delete all the genuine articles that I have contributed.  If you are familiar with the subject, perhaps you should comment there. Flying Fische (talk) 20:30, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

text: That article you site is about fraudulently using multiple accounts. As far as I know there is no policy that prohibits people from asking others to support their position on a dispute, especially on the Talk page of an article relevant to the dispute. MadScientistX11 (talk) 02:32, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Maeve Gilmore]] 

message: By the way, the papers of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore were acquired by the British Library in March 2010:Support the British Library acquisitions. The archive is now catalogued and available on Search Our Catalogue: Archives and Manuscripts Zoe Wilcox (talk) 11:39, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mervyn Peake Archive