Edition of poems that helped to cement Brooke’s reputation as a war poet.
From front material:
Rupert Brooke
Born at Rugby, August 3, 1887
Fellow of King’s, 1913
Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. [Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve], September 1914
Antwerp Expedition, October 1914
Sailed with British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, February 28, 1915
Died in the Aegean, April 23, 1915
Contents:
1914
I. Peace: p. 11
II. Safety: p. 12
III. The Dead: p. 13
IV. The Dead: p. 14
V. The Soldier: p. 15
The Treasure: p. 16
The South Seas
Tiare Tahiti: p. 19
Retrospect: p. 22
The Great Lover: p. 24
Heaven: p. 27
Doubts: p. 29
There’s Wisdom in Women: p. 30
He wonders whether to praise or to blame her: p. 31
A Memory: p. 32
One Day: p. 33
Waikiki: p. 34
Hauntings: p. 35
Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research): p. 36
Clouds:p. 37
Mutability: p. 38
Other Poems
The Busy Heart: p. 41
Love: p. 42
Unfortunate: p. 43
The Chilterns: p. 44
Home: p. 46
The Night Journey: p. 47
Song: p. 49
Beauty and Beauty: p. 50
The Way that Lovers use: p. 51
Mary and Gabriel: p. 52
The Funeral of Youth: p. 55
Grantchester
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester: p. 59
London: Sidwick & Jackson Ltd., 1915.
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