Rupert Brooke: life, death and myth

Jones, Nigel

Rupert Brooke: life, death and myth - Revised - Head of Zeus 2014 - 480 pages

Previous edition: London: Richard Cohen, 1999

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

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Poets, English--20th century--Biography

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