Mervyn Peake

**Mervyn Laurence Peake** (9.7. 1911 – 17.11. 1968.) bio je engleski modernistički pisac, umjetnik, pjesnik i ilustrator. Najpoznatiji je pos ciklusu knjiga *[[Gormenghast]]*, mada je ispravniji naziv *Titus* s obzirom da ju je Peake namjeravao posvetiti jednom te istom liku, ali ga je u tome spriječila smrt. Ponekad se uspoređuju s djelima njegovog suvremenika Tolkiena, mada je njegova nadrealistička proza inspiraciju prije našla kod Dickensa i Roberta Louisa Stevensona nego kod Tolkienovih studija mitologije i filologije.

Peake je također pisao poeziju i besmislenu književnost u stihu, pripovjetke za odrasle i djecu ("Letters from a Lost Uncle"), kazališne i radio-drame, te *[[Mr Pye]]*, relativno tradicionalni roman u kome Bog implicitno ismijava evangeličke pretenzije i konformistički stav junaka.

Peake je reputaciju prvo stvorio kao slikar i ilustrator 1930-ih i 1940-ih, živeći u Londonu i stvarajući portrete poznatih ličnosti. Zbirka tih crteža je danas u posjedu njegove porodice. Iako nije bio popularan za života, uživao je ugled kod kolega, a prijatelji su mu bili Dylan Thomas i Graham Greene. Njegova djela su danas dio zbirke Nacionalne galerije portreta i Imperijalnog ratnog muzeja.

## Bibliografija
* *Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor* (1939)
* *Shapes and Sounds* (1941)
* *[[Rhymes without Reason]]* (1944)
* *[[Titus Groan (roman)|Titus Groan]]* (1946)
* *The Craft of the Lead Pencil* (1946)
* *[[Letters from a Lost Uncle]] (from Polar Regions)* (1948)
* *Drawings by Mervyn Peake* (1949)
* *[[Gormenghast (roman)|Gormenghast]]* (1950)
* *The Glassblowers* (1950)
* *[[Mr Pye]]* (1953)
* *Figures of Speech* (1954)
* *[[Titus Alone]]* (1959)
* *[[The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb]]* (1962)
* *Poems and Drawings* (1965)
* *A Reverie of Bone and other Poems* (1967)
* *Selected Poems* (1972)
* *[[A Book of Nonsense]]* (1972)
* *The Drawings of Mervyn Peake* (1974)
* *Mervyn Peake: Writings and Drawings* (1974)
* *Twelve Poems* (1975)
* *[[Boy in Darkness]]* (prvo posebno izdanje, 1976)
* *Peake's Progress* (1978)
* *Ten Poems* (1993)
* *Eleven Poems* (1995)
* *The Cave* (1996)

### Knjige ilustracija
* *Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor* (Country Life, 1939)
* *Ride a Cock Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes* (Chatto & Windus, 1940)
* Lewis Carroll: *[[Hunting of the Snark]]* ()
* Lewis Carroll: *[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice in Wonderland]]* 
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge: *[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]* 
* Braća Grimm: *Household Tales* 
* Quentin Crisp: *All This and Bevin Too* 
* Robert Louis Stevenson: *[[Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]* 
* Robert Louis Stevenson: *[[Treasure Island]]* 
* Balzac: *Droll Stories* (Folio Society, 1961) 
* *The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb*(1962)

## Vanjske veze
* Mervyn Peake , the official site
* Gormenghast, the official Gormenghast site
* Peake Studies, the periodical dedicated to Peake's life and work
* the Peake entry in the Literary Encyclopedia
* The Scriptorium: Mervyn Peake 
* "An Excellence of Peake" , by Michael Moorcock
* Gormenghast Castle 
* Self-portrait from the National Portrait Gallery collection
* Interview with Sebastian Peake, Mervyn Peake's son, on wotmania.com 

## Izvori
* Winnington, G. Peter (ed.) (2006) *Mervyn Peake: the man and his art*. (London: Peter Owen)
* Winnington, G. Peter (2000) *Vast Alchemies: the life and work of Mervyn Peake*. (London: Peter Owen)
* Winnington, G. Peter (2006) *The Voice of the Heart: the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination*. (Liverpool U P / Chicago U P)
* Peake, Mervyn (ca.1950) 'Notes towards a Projected Autobiography', printed in Maeve Gilmore (ed.), *Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake* (London: Allen Lane, 1978)