Mervyn Peake vs. Virginia Woolf
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Mervyn Peake
1911 – 1968
Literature
United Kingdom
Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death.
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"Art should be artless, not heartless."
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Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941
Literature
United Kingdom
Bloomsbury Group
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
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Connections
Virginia Woolf was influenced by Mervyn Peake
Shared era: 1911 – 1941
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