Author: Rupert Brooke
Title: The Prose of Rupert Brooke
Description: London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1956. Cloth. A collection of the prose works by this literary writer, poet and tragic victim of the First World War, Rupert Brooke. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an English poet remembered for his war poetry. He was a friend amongst the Bloomsbury group of writers, and was a member of the literary groups the Georgian Poets and the Dymock poets, which included Robert Frost and Edward Thomas as members. His sonnets written during the First World War remain some of the most important examples of Western war poetry, with 'The Soldier' and 'The Dead' being his most well known verses. He tragically perished from sepsis from a mosquito bite whilst sailing with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the First World War at the age of twenty-seven.This volume contains Brooke's travel writing, essays on poets including Browning and Shelley, his writings on drama and miscellanies.With a clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, minor wear only. Dust wrapper is clipped, a touch of spotting and sunning to the spine, a large chip to the tail of the spine. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: rupert brooke literary criticism essays travel writing literary criticism None
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Title: The Prose of Rupert Brooke
Description: London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1956. Cloth. A collection of the prose works by this literary writer, poet and tragic victim of the First World War, Rupert Brooke. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an English poet remembered for his war poetry. He was a friend amongst the Bloomsbury group of writers, and was a member of the literary groups the Georgian Poets and the Dymock poets, which included Robert Frost and Edward Thomas as members. His sonnets written during the First World War remain some of the most important examples of Western war poetry, with 'The Soldier' and 'The Dead' being his most well known verses. He tragically perished from sepsis from a mosquito bite whilst sailing with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the First World War at the age of twenty-seven.This volume contains Brooke's travel writing, essays on poets including Browning and Shelley, his writings on drama and miscellanies.With a clipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, minor wear only. Dust wrapper is clipped, a touch of spotting and sunning to the spine, a large chip to the tail of the spine. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: rupert brooke literary criticism essays travel writing literary criticism None
Price: GBP 48.00 = appr. US$ 68.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 756R17
- Book number: 756R17
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