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Author : Rupert Brooke
Publisher : Better Words Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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"When 'The Soldier' is read alongside his other poems one realizes what a huge loss his early death in war represents." These ecstatic poems form the heritage and chronicle of a handsome British youth who died in the Great War. Rupert Chawner/Chaucer Brooke (1887-1915), was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War especially 'The Soldier', however, he never experienced combat at first hand. He was also known for his boyish good looks. Brooke toured the United States and Canada to write travel diaries for the Westminster Gazette. Amongst his other works are: The Bastille (1905), Poems (1911), The South Seas (1914), 1914 and Other Poems (1915), Lithuania (1915), The Collected Poems (1915/1918) and Letters from America (1916). Download now and start reading these classic poems today!

Author : Nigel Jones
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781857164

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A candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke reveals that the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of this English literary icon.

Author : Rupert Brooke
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300070040

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Letters between the two men reveal their thoughts on politics, literature, and homosexuality, as well as their observations of such collegues and friends as John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Betrand Russell.

Author : Mike Read
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1849548668

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Rupert Brooke, strikingly good-looking, effortlessly charming and prodigiously gifted, has become the tragic embodiment of the generation lost between 1914 and 1918. Upon the poet's tragic untimely death, Winston Churchill declared that 'we shall never see his like again', yet Brooke immortalised himself in his own poignant verse: 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England'. Brooke died serving king and country on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, St George's Day 1915, en route to fight at Gallipoli. As the tributes poured in and the war gathered momentum, the press heralded him as a hero - a focal point for the nation's grief. Already an acclaimed poet and dramatist in his youth, his romantic war poetry contrasts starkly with the work of some of his more disillusioned contemporaries. But the private letters of 'the handsomest man in all of England' reveal a far more troubled, and often misunderstood, individual... In this updated edition of Forever England, Mike Read, founder of the Rupert Brooke Society, explores the poet's fascinating life and legacy. From a tangled web of secret affairs, literary circles, mental illness and a previously unknown lovechild emerges the intriguing personality and enduring poetry of Rupert Brooke - the voice of a country torn apart by war.

Author : John Frayn Turner
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2005-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1781596875

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Rupert Brooke's short life was filled to brimming with drama and romance. Today he is the best known of that extraordinary collection of British Poets of the Great War. Tragically his life was cut short but not before he produced arguably the finest poetry of the 20th Century, the best examples of which are in this book.

Author : Rupert Brooke
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 048684773X

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This volume reprints Brooke's complete oeuvre, from the early lyric poems to those written shortly before his death: "Tiare Tahiti," "The Great Lover," "The Dead," "The Soldier," many others.

Author : Nigel Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1781857156

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Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic – and sometimes alarmingly unstable. This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.