Rupert Brooke
Life, Death and Myth
1st Edition
Published on 6. November 2014
624 pages
978-1-78185-715-1 (ISBN)
Description
Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing.
But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic - and sometimes alarmingly unstable.
This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.
But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic - and sometimes alarmingly unstable.
This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
16pp b&w photos
ISBN-13
978-1-78185-715-1 (9781781857151)
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Person
Nigel Jones is the author of TOWER and PEACE AND WAR: BRITAIN IN 1914. A former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, He has appeared on historical documentaries on TV and radio.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Breathing English Air
- 2 Youth is Stranger than Fiction
- 3 'Every Hour as Golden'
- 4 'Forward the Day is Breaking'
- 5 Apollo and Apostles
- 6 Fabian Summer
- 7 In Arcadia
- 8 Milk and Honey
- 9 The Old School
- 10 'Life Burns On'
- 11 Munich
- 12 Elisabeth
- 13 Virginia and the Old Vicarage
- 14 You and You
- 15 Lulworth and the Ka Crisis
- 16 Madness
- 17 Herr Und Frau Brooke
- 18 Three Women, a Play and a Poem
- 19 Broken Glass
- 20 New Friends, Now Strangers
- 21 Rotters and Fellows
- 22 A New World
- 23 Heaven on Earth
- 24 Homeward Bound
- 25 'If Armageddon's On'
- 26 The Soldier
- 27 A Body of England's
- Epilogue: Brooke Now - from Myth to Man
- Afterword: The Strange Death of Ka Cox
- Preview
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Section
- Sources and Further Reading
- Index
- Picture Credits
- About this Book
- Reviews
- About the Author
- Also By this Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
