Rupert Brooke: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few lives burned as brilliantly — or as briefly — as that of Rupert Brooke, the golden-haired English poet who became the defining symbol of a generation consumed by the First World War. Christopher Hassall's authoritative biography chronicles Brooke's meteoric rise through Edwardian literary society, his passionate friendships and love affairs, his travels across America and the South Seas, and his tragic death in 1915 at the age of twenty-seven, immortalised by Winston Churchill's celebrated obituary in The Times. Hassall, himself a poet and librettist of considerable standing, brings an insider's sensitivity to his subject, drawing on extensive correspondence, personal diaries, and interviews with those who knew Brooke intimately. The result is a portrait that cuts through the myth of the soldier-poet to reveal a complex, restless, and deeply human figure — one whose work, including the sonnet The Soldier, continues to resonate across the decades. For anyone seeking to understand the literary and cultural soul of Edwardian England on the eve of its destruction, this biography demands to be read.
Author: Christopher Hassall
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few lives burned as brilliantly — or as briefly — as that of Rupert Brooke, the golden-haired English poet who became the defining symbol of a generation consumed by the First World War. Christopher Hassall's authoritative biography chronicles Brooke's meteoric rise through Edwardian literary society, his passionate friendships and love affairs, his travels across America and the South Seas, and his tragic death in 1915 at the age of twenty-seven, immortalised by Winston Churchill's celebrated obituary in The Times. Hassall, himself a poet and librettist of considerable standing, brings an insider's sensitivity to his subject, drawing on extensive correspondence, personal diaries, and interviews with those who knew Brooke intimately. The result is a portrait that cuts through the myth of the soldier-poet to reveal a complex, restless, and deeply human figure — one whose work, including the sonnet The Soldier, continues to resonate across the decades. For anyone seeking to understand the literary and cultural soul of Edwardian England on the eve of its destruction, this biography demands to be read.