This volume contains the complete poetical works of Rupert Brooke.
Brooke’s beautifully haunting poetry will appeal to all keen poetry lovers, but will be of special value to those with an interest in war poetry, and specifically poetry relating to the First World War.
This wonderful volume makes for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and is not to be missed by collectors of Brooke’s seminal work.
The poems contained herein include:– Second Best
– Day that I have Loved
– Sleeping Out – Full Moon
– In Examination
– Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening
– Wagne’r
– The Vision of the Archangels
– Seaside On the Death of Smet-Smet
– The Song of the Pilgrims
Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887 – 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially ‘The Soldier’.
This volume was first published in 1914, and is being republished now complete with a new specially commissioned biography of the author.
Tabella dei contenuti
Rupert Brooke
Poems 1905-1911
1905-1908
– Second best
– 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 song of the pilgrims
– The song of the beasts
– Failure
– Ante aram
– Dawn
– The call
– The wayfarers
– The beginning
Experiments
– Choriambics – i
– Choriambics – ii
– Desertion
1908-1911
– Sonnet
– Sonnet
– 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
– Lines written in the belief that the ancient roman festival of the dead was called ambarvalia
– Dead men’s love
– Town and country
– Paralysis
– Menelaus and helen
– Lust
– Jealousy
– Blue evening
– The charm
– Finding
– Song
– The voice
– Dining-room tea
– The goddess in the wood
– A channel passage
– Victory
– Day and night
Poems 1911-1914
Grantchester
– The old vicarage, grantchester
Other Poems
– Beauty and beauty
– Song
– Mary and gabriel
– Unfortunate
– The busy heart
– Love
– The chilterns
– Home
– The night journey
– The way that lovers use
– The funeral of youth: threnody
The South Seas
– Mutability
– Clouds
– Sonnet
– A Memory
– One day
– Waiki
– Hauntings
– He wonders whether to praise or to blame her
– Doubts
– There’s wisdom in women
– Fafaïa
– Heaven
– The great lover
– Retrospect
– Tiare tahiti
1914
– The treasure
– I. Peace
– Ii. Safety
– Iii. The dead
– Iv. The dead
– V. The soldier
Appendix
– Fragment
– The dance
– Song
– Sometimes even now
– Sonnet: in time of revolt
– A letter to a live poet
– Fragment on painters
– The true beatitude
(bouts-rimés)
– Sonnet reversed
– It’s not going to happen again
– The little dog’s day
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