Rupert Brooke: life, death and myth
by Jones, Nigel; Brooke, Rupert.
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BookPublisher: Head of Zeus 2014Edition: Revised.ISBN: 9781781857168; 1781857164.Classification number: 821.912 BROSubject(s): Brooke 1887-1915 | Poets, English -- 20th century -- BiographySubject: 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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| 821.8 BRO The complete poems / | 821.8 CAR Jabberwocky and other nonsense: | 821.91 HEA Death of a naturalist / | 821.912 BRO Rupert Brooke: life, death and myth | 821.912 ELI The waste land: a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts including the annotations of Ezra Pound | 821.912 HOU A Shropshire lad and other poems: the collected poems of A E Houseman | 821.912 JON In parenthesis: seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu |
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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