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    1914 and Other Poems
    1914 and Other Poems
    1914 and Other Poems
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    1914 and Other Poems

    By Rupert Brooke

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    This volume contains a fantastic collection of poetry written by Rupert Chawner Brooke. Rupert Chawner (1887 - 1915) was an English poet famous for the idealistic war sonnets that he wrote during the First World War, namely "The Soldier". This wonderful collection will appeal to a range of poetry lovers, but will be of special interest to those with a penchant for war poetry. The poems of this collection include: "Peace", "Safety", "The Dead", "The Soldier", "The Treasure", "Tiare Tahiti", "Retrospect", "The Great Lover", "Heaven", "Doubts", "There's Wisdom in Women", "He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her", "A Memory", and more. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJun 8, 2015
    ISBN9781473375253
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      1914 and Other Poems - Rupert Brooke

      1914

      AND OTHER POEMS

      BY

      RUPERT BROOKE

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Contents

      Rupert Brooke

      1914

      I. PEACE

      II. SAFETY

      III. THE DEAD

      IV. THE DEAD

      V. THE SOLDIER

      THE TREASURE

      THE SOUTH SEAS

      TIARE TAHITI

      RETROSPECT

      THE GREAT LOVER

      HEAVEN

      DOUBTS

      THERE’S WISDOM IN WOMEN

      HE WONDERS WHETHER TO PRAISE OR TO BLAME HER

      A MEMORY (From a sonnet-sequence)

      ONE DAY

      WAIKIKI

      HAUNTINGS

      SONNET

      CLOUDS

      MUTABILITY

      OTHER POEMS

      THE BUSY HEART

      LOVE

      UNFORTUNATE

      THE CHILTERNS

      HOME

      THE NIGHT JOURNEY

      SONG

      BEAUTY AND BEAUTY

      THE WAY THAT LOVERS USE

      MARY AND GABRIEL

      THE FUNERAL OF YOUTH: THRENODY

      GRANTCHESTER

      THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER (Café des Westens, Berlin, May 1912)

      Rupert Brooke

      Rupert Brooke was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England in 1887. He was educated at two independent schools in his hometown, and while travelling in Europe prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge. Here, Brooke became a member of the Cambridge Apostles and helped found the Marlowe Society drama club.

      After leaving Cambridge University, Brooke studied in Germany and travelled in Italy. His first collection of poems was published in 1911, and two years later Brooke became a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. In the same year, he left England to travel in North America, New Zealand and the Pacific islands. He returned home shortly before the outbreak of World War One, during which he took part in the disastrous Antwerp expedition of October 1914.

      In February of 1915, while at sea, Brooke septicaemia from a mosquito bite. He died on 23rd April 1915, close to the Greek island of Skyros, aged just 27. He came to public attention soon afterwards,

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