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    The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
    The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
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    This classic book is the complete poetical works of Rupert Brooke. Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887–1915) was English poet, most famous for his war poetry. A fantastic collection of moving and thought-provoking poetry, this volume is highly recommended for all lovers of the form, and constitutes a must-read for fans of war poetry. Poems include: “Second Best”, “Day That I Have Loved”, “Sleeping Out: Full Moon”, “In Examination”, “Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening”, “Wagner”, “The Vision of the Archangles”, “Seaside”, “On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess”, “The Song of the Pilgrims”, and more. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 11, 2015
    ISBN9781473372672

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      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.

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    The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke

    THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE

    by

    Rupert Brooke

    [British Poet — 1887-1915]

    The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

    with an introduction by George Edward Woodberry

    and a biographical note by Margaret Lavington

    Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

    This book is copyright and may not be

    reproduced or copied in any way without

    the express permission of the publisher in writing

    British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

    A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

    Contents

    THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE

    Rupert Brooke

    Introduction

    1905-1908

    Day That I Have Loved

    Sleeping Out: Full Moon

    In Examination

    Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening

    Wagner

    The Vision of the Archangels

    Seaside

    On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess

    The Song of the Pilgrims

    The Song of the Beasts

    Failure

    Ante Aram

    Dawn

    The Call

    The Wayfarers

    The Beginning

    Sonnet: I said I splendidly loved you; it’s not true

    Success

    Dust

    Kindliness

    Mummia

    The Fish

    Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body

    Flight

    The Hill

    The One Before the Last

    The Jolly Company

    The Life Beyond

    Dead Men’s Love

    Town and Country

    Paralysis

    Menelaus and Helen

    Libido

    Jealousy

    Blue Evening

    The Charm

    Finding

    Song

    The Voice

    Dining-Room Tea

    The Goddess in the Wood

    A Channel Passage

    Victory

    Day and Night

    Experiments

    Desertion

    1914

    The Treasure

    Retrospect

    The Great Lover

    Heaven

    Doubts

    There’s Wisdom in Women

    He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her

    A Memory (From a sonnet-sequence)

    One Day

    Waikiki

    Hauntings

    Clouds

    Mutability

    Other Poems

    Love

    Unfortunate

    The Chilterns

    Home

    The Night Journey

    Song

    Beauty and Beauty

    The Way That Lovers Use

    Mary and Gabriel

    The Funeral of Youth: Threnody

    Grantchester

    Fafaia

    Rupert Brooke: A Biographical Note

    Rupert Brooke

    Rupert Brooke was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England in 1887. He was educated at two independent schools in his hometown, and while travelling in Europe prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge. Here, Brooke became a member of the Cambridge Apostles and helped found the Marlowe Society drama club.

    After leaving Cambridge University, Brooke studied in Germany and travelled in Italy. His first collection of poems was published in 1911, and two years later Brooke became a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. In the same year, he left England to travel in North America, New Zealand and the Pacific islands. He returned home shortly before the outbreak of World War One, during which he took part in the disastrous Antwerp expedition of October 1914.

    In February of 1915, while at sea, Brooke septicaemia from a mosquito bite. He died on 23rd April 1915, close to the Greek island of Skyros, aged just 27. He came to public attention soon afterwards, when The Times Literary Supplement quoted two of his five sonnets (‘IV: The Dead’ and ‘V: The Soldier’), and ‘V: The Soldier’ was read from the pulpit of St Paul’s Cathedral on 4th April – Easter Sunday. Brooke’s most famous collection of poetry, containing all five sonnets, 1914 & Other Poems, was first published in May 1915.

    Brooke’s work captured the optimism of World War I’s opening months, and expressed an idealism about the conflict that contrasts strongly with the poetry published by later poets such as Wilfred Owen.

    Introduction

    I

    Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was vivid. This vitality, though manifold in expression, is felt primarily in his sensations — surprise mingled with delight —

    One after one, like tasting a sweet food.

    This is life’s first fine rapture. It makes him patient to name over those myriad things (each of which seems like a fresh discovery) curious but potent, and above all common, that he loved, — he the Great Lover. Lover of what, then? Why, of

    "White plates and cups clean-gleaming,

    Ringed with blue lines," —

    and the like, through thirty lines of exquisite words; and he is captivated by the multiple brevity of these vignettes of sense, keen, momentary, ecstatic with the morning dip of youth in the wonderful stream. The poem is a catalogue of vital sensations and dear names as well. All these have been my loves.

    The spring of these emotions is the natural body, but it sends pulsations far into the spirit. The feeling rises in direct observation, but it is soon aware of the outlets of the sky. He sees objects practically unrelated, and links them in strings; or he sees them pictorially; or, he sees pictures immersed as it were in an atmosphere of thought. When the process is complete, the thought suggests the picture and is its origin. Then the Great Lover revisits the bottom of the monstrous world, and imaginatively and thoughtfully recreates that strange under-sea, whose glooms and gleams and muds are well known to him as a strong and delighted swimmer; or, at the last, drifts through the dream of a South Sea lagoon, still with a philosophical question in his mouth. Yet one can hardly speak of completion. These are real first flights. What we have in this volume is not so much a work of art as an artist in his birth trying the wings of genius.

    The poet loves his new-found element. He clings to mortality; to life, not thought; or, as he puts it, to the concrete, — let the abstract go pack! There’s little comfort in the wise, he ends. But in the unfolding of his precocious spirit, the literary control comes uppermost; his boat, finding its keel, swings to the helm of mind. How should it be otherwise for a youth well-born, well-bred, in college air? Intellectual primacy showed itself to him in many wandering loves, fine lover that he was; but in the end he was an intellectual lover, and the magnet seems to have been especially powerful in the ghosts of the men of wit, Donne, Marvell — erudite lords of language, poets in another world than ours, a less ample ether, a less divine air, our fathers thought, but poets of eternity. A quintessential drop of intellect is apt to be in poetic blood. How Platonism fascinates the poets, like a shining bait! Rupert Brooke will have none of it; but at a turn of the verse he is back at it, examining, tasting, refusing. In those alternate drives of the thought in his South Sea idyl (clever as tennis play) how he slips from phenomenon to idea and reverses, happy with either, it seems, were t’other dear charmer away. How bravely he tries to free himself from the cling of earth, at the close of the Great Lover! How little he succeeds! His

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