Rupert Brooke : life, death and myth / Nigel Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Nigel H., author.

Contributor:

Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915.

Brooke, Rupert.

Poets, English--20th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 588 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Head of Zeus Ltd, 2015.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

This edition originally published: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781781857038

1781857032

OCLC:

909500389

Publisher Number:

99963531980