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1 online resource |
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Cover; Welcome Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Breathing English Air; 2 Youth is Stranger than Fiction; 3 'Every Hour as Golden'; 4 'Forward the Day is Breaking'; 5 Apollo and Apostles; 6 Fabian Summer; 7 In Arcadia; 8 Milk and Honey; 9 The Old School; 10 'Life Burns On'; 11 Munich; 12 Elisabeth; 13 Virginia and the Old Vicarage; 14 You and You; 15 Lulworth and the Ka Crisis; 16 Madness; 17 Herr Und Frau Brooke; 18 Three Women, a Play and a Poem; 19 Broken Glass; 20 New Friends, Now Strangers; 21 Rotters and Fellows; 22 A New World; 23 Heaven on Earth; 24 Homeward Bound |
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25 'If Armageddon's On'26 The Soldier; 27 A Body of England's; Epilogue: Brooke Now -- from Myth to Man; Afterword: The Strange Death of Ka Cox; Preview; Acknowledgements; Picture Section; Sources and Further Reading; Index; Picture Credits; About this Book; Reviews; About the Author; Also By this Author; An Invitation from the Publisher; Copyright |
| Summary |
A candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke reveals the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade of an English literary icon. 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. The 27-year-old author of the patriotic sonnet ""The Soldier"" was buried in a grave strewn with olive branches and scented with sage. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise, a disappointmen |
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Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915.
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Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915 fast |
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Military.
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Poets, English
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Soldiers
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Great Britain
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781781857151 |
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1781857156 |
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