Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
1914 and Other Poems
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Rupert Brooke
Author: Nigel Jones
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781860661778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Since his death in the First World War, Brooke has been identified with a romantic myth of a lost world where church clocks stood still and there was eternal honey for tea. But, as this book shows, the truth about Brooke was both more shocking and a lot more interesting. Drawing on a mass of documentation, much of it unpublished, this new biography brings out the full story behind one of the century's most enduring literary legends.
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781860661778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Since his death in the First World War, Brooke has been identified with a romantic myth of a lost world where church clocks stood still and there was eternal honey for tea. But, as this book shows, the truth about Brooke was both more shocking and a lot more interesting. Drawing on a mass of documentation, much of it unpublished, this new biography brings out the full story behind one of the century's most enduring literary legends.
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grantchester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grantchester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Forever England
Author: Mike Read
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1849548668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1849548668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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.
Stand in the Trench, Achilles
Author: Elizabeth Vandiver
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199542740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199542740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Rupert Brooke and Skyros
Author: Stanley Casson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Angels in the Trenches
Author: Dr Leo Ruickbie
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 9781472139597
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After a miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the First World War, the British really believed that they were on the side of the angels. Indeed, after 1916, the number of spiritualist societies in the United Kingdom almost doubled, from 158 to 309. As Arthur Conan Doyle explained, 'The deaths occurring in almost every family in the land brought a sudden and concentrated interest in the life after death. People not only asked the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" but they eagerly sought to know if communication was possible with the dear ones they had lost.' From the Angel of Mons to the popular boom in spiritualism as the horrors of industrialised warfare reaped their terrible harvest, the paranormal - and its use in propaganda - was one of the key aspects of the First World War. Angels in the Trenches takes us from defining moments, such as the Angel of Mons on the Front Line, to spirit communication on the Home Front, often involving the great and the good of the period, such as aristocrat Dame Edith Lyttelton, founder of the War Refugees Committee, and the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University. We see here people at every level of society struggling to come to terms with the ferocity and terror of the war, and their own losses: soldiers looking for miracles on the battlefield; parents searching for lost sons in the séance room. It is a human story of people forced to look beyond the apparent certainties of the everyday - and this book follows them on that journey.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 9781472139597
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After a miraculous escape from the German military juggernaut in the small Belgian town of Mons in 1914, the first major battle that the British Expeditionary Force would face in the First World War, the British really believed that they were on the side of the angels. Indeed, after 1916, the number of spiritualist societies in the United Kingdom almost doubled, from 158 to 309. As Arthur Conan Doyle explained, 'The deaths occurring in almost every family in the land brought a sudden and concentrated interest in the life after death. People not only asked the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" but they eagerly sought to know if communication was possible with the dear ones they had lost.' From the Angel of Mons to the popular boom in spiritualism as the horrors of industrialised warfare reaped their terrible harvest, the paranormal - and its use in propaganda - was one of the key aspects of the First World War. Angels in the Trenches takes us from defining moments, such as the Angel of Mons on the Front Line, to spirit communication on the Home Front, often involving the great and the good of the period, such as aristocrat Dame Edith Lyttelton, founder of the War Refugees Committee, and the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University. We see here people at every level of society struggling to come to terms with the ferocity and terror of the war, and their own losses: soldiers looking for miracles on the battlefield; parents searching for lost sons in the séance room. It is a human story of people forced to look beyond the apparent certainties of the everyday - and this book follows them on that journey.
Rupert Brooke in the First World War
Author: Alisa Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1942954344
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Introduction -- Life. Youth -- The idyll -- Self-mobilisation -- Enlistment -- War and waiting -- The war sonnets -- Transport -- Afterlife. Patriotic poetry -- Public death -- Syndication -- Image -- Patrons -- Readers -- Poet-soldiers -- Careful critics -- Export -- Conclusion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1942954344
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Introduction -- Life. Youth -- The idyll -- Self-mobilisation -- Enlistment -- War and waiting -- The war sonnets -- Transport -- Afterlife. Patriotic poetry -- Public death -- Syndication -- Image -- Patrons -- Readers -- Poet-soldiers -- Careful critics -- Export -- Conclusion.
If I Should Die
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857996562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857996562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description