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THE WORKS OF RUPERT BROOKE (Wordsworth Poetry Library) par Rupert Brooke
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judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 | While known as a war poet most of Brooke's poetry was written prior to the Great War. When war was declared in 1914 he had his first experience of war on the disastrous expedition to Antwerp, spending a few days and nights being shelled in trenches. Early in 1915 he sailed with the Expeditionary Force to the Dardanelles, but died of blood poisoning on a French hospital ship at Scyros, Greece on April 23rd, Saint George's Day. He was buried at night, by torchlight, in an olive grove.
I found much of his words pompous by modern standards, generally glorifying war although he had so little experience of it, yet his voice called to mind the generation of young men who were lost. Although his most famous lines are in "The Soldier", I found this poem particularly appealing:
I found much of his words pompous by modern standards, generally glorifying war although he had so little experience of it, yet his voice called to mind the generation of young men who were lost. Although his most famous lines are in "The Soldier", I found this poem particularly appealing:
Song½
All suddenly the wind comes soft,
And Spring is here again;
And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green,
And my heart with buds of pain.
My heart all Winter lay so numb,
The earth so dead and frore,
That I never thought the Spring would come,
Or my heart wake any more.
But Winter's broken and earth has woken,
And the small birds cry again;
And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,
And my heart puts forth its pain.”
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VivienneR | 2 autres critiques | Nov 10, 2020 | Signalé
DanielSTJ | 2 autres critiques | Dec 18, 2018 | The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke is a collection of all his poems the editors found fit to print organized from last to first with a collection of fragments from his final journey to Gallipoli in an appendix at the end. The problem with collections ordered this way is that all the good stuff is at the beginning, and the drift towards juvenilia makes for increasingly tiresome reading. Considering that Brooke's best work was done in a few short years before his early death from septicemia on the Mediterranean front of World War I, at times it becomes quite a slog. But Brooke wrote poems worth reading: including his war sonnets, "Grantcester", and some very interesting pieces set in Polynesia. And he deserves to be remembered, as a minor poet, perhaps, but as someone who had genuine poetic talent. It helps that both he and I are fans of the poets of the 90s. At times you can feel a bit of their rhythmic musicality come through his more modern style. So if you are interested in poets who died in World War I or just 20th century poets in general, Brooke is one you will want to bump into, and this volume is a good way to do so.
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inge87 | 2 autres critiques | Aug 31, 2016 | The stars are more for the memoir than the poetry which is all wild-eyed and rhapshodic. The Soldier is remarkable but stands alone.
The memoir, by Marsh, is fascinating. Again, the impression one gets of Brooke is of someone who couldn't move without having a life changing, mind altering experience. But what lingers is the death, not only of Brooke, but of so many of his circle. You have a real impression of the scale of loss produced by World War One.
The memoir, by Marsh, is fascinating. Again, the impression one gets of Brooke is of someone who couldn't move without having a life changing, mind altering experience. But what lingers is the death, not only of Brooke, but of so many of his circle. You have a real impression of the scale of loss produced by World War One.
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JohnPhelan | 2 autres critiques | Jun 17, 2015 | Signalé
aulsmith | Jan 6, 2015 | 641. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (read 24 Feb 1961) Brooke is a fascinating figure, and some of his poems really resonate with me. I long ago memorized the poem beginning: "If I should die, think only this of me..."
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Schmerguls | 2 autres critiques | Jul 23, 2013 | A very good collection of poems which summarises the attitude to the Great War in its early stages. Perhaps if he had lived longer, he would have become as disillusioned as the later War Poets.
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PeterClack | 1 autre critique | Dec 10, 2009 | This is a collection of the poems of a major Georgian poet whose death in the First World War cut short the development of what would have become a major talent.
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Fledgist | 2 autres critiques | Dec 20, 2007 | Signalé
Sareene | 1 autre critique | Oct 22, 2016 | Liens
Wikipedia (English)
The Rupert Brooke Society (English)
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