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19 de abr. de 2024 · Rupert Brooke (born Aug. 3, 1887, Rugby, Warwickshire, Eng.—died April 23, 1915, Skyros, Greece) was an English poet, a wellborn, gifted, handsome youth whose early death in World War I contributed to his idealized image in the interwar period. His best-known work is the sonnet sequence 1914.
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2 de mai. de 2024 · May 02, 2024. Share. Subscribe. Wedding portrait, 1910s ( Wikimedia Commons) W. B. Yeats once called Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) “the handsomest young man in England.”. And it’s true that Brooke endures in our cultural imagination as poster boy for that generation of poets lost to the First World War.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Rupert Brooke’s original grave on the island of Skyros, in Greece. via W. W. Norton. Korda sets the intimate details of Brooke’s story, jewel-like, amid the larger context of a Europe on the...
- Alice Winn
16 de abr. de 2024 · Nor did Wilfred show evidence of the facile genius of Rupert Brooke, whose poems flowed like music, apparently written without effort, and yet had the solid power of being based on his own experiences.
14 de abr. de 2024 · She will not care. She'll smile to see me come, So that I think all Heaven in flower to fold me. She'll give me all I ask, kiss me and hold me, And open wide upon that holy air The gates of peace, and take my tiredness home, Kinder than God. But, heart, she will not care. Category: Sonnets. Subpages.
Há 4 dias · “Trees,” the first poem I ever memorized, was written by Joyce Kilmer, who died in the war, as did the British poets Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen. Siegfried Sassoon and JRR Tolkien survived, but the war haunted them and their writing for the rest of their lives.
16 de abr. de 2024 · His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, “the handsomest young man in England” and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice.
