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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Laughter and the Love of Friends
- Chapter 2: Kingās Herald
- Chapter 3: Apostle or Apollo?
- Chapter 4: The Dew-Dabblers
- Chapter 5: First of May 1933
- Chapter 6: Unrequited Love
- Chapter 7: When You Were There, and You, and You
- Chapter 8: Monsters of the Darkest Hell Nibbled My Soul
- Chapter 9: Hope Springs Eternal (Alexander Pope)
- Chapter 10: From the Old World to the New World
- Chapter 11: Ships ā Ocean-Going, Laureate and Friend
- Chapter 12: Goe, and Catch a Falling Starre (John Donne)
- Chapter 13: The āBrussels-Before-Waterloo Feelingā
- Chapter 14: I Canāt Fly or Drive a Car or Ride a Horse
- Chapter 15: āSome Corner of a Foreign Fieldā
- Chapter 16: He Does Not Die That Can Bequeath Some Influence To The Land He Knows
- Chapter 17: Revelations
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright