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2 days ago · 6 likes, 0 comments - mariac_phd on October 14, 2024: "I've been thinking about this poem by Mervyn Peake a lot lately. Most people who have heard of him know him for his grotesquely opulent Gormenghast trilogy, but he was also a wonderful poet. Much of his poetry reflects on the desolation and destruction of WW2, which, although he didn't fight in, greatly affected him. He was tasked with ...
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