Rupert Brooke in the First World War / Alisa Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Alisa, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poets, English.

Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography.

Soldiers.

Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915.

Brooke, Rupert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clemson : Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This cultural biography makes extensive use of archival sources to show how people who knew Brooke, or thought they knew him through his poetry and public image, drew on the poet-soldier to make sense of their own experiences of the war, both in the trenches and on the home front. Going beyond Brooke's own life and famously romantic death, it retraces the evolution of his reputation in cultural imagination as forged by a network of major political and literary figures of the period including Winston Churchill, Edward Marsh, Virginia Woolf, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, and Henry James. This book will appear during a period of commemorations and special events marking the centenary of WWI.

Contents:

Introduction

Life. Youth

The idyll

Self-mobilisation

Enlistment

War and waiting

The war sonnets

Transport

Afterlife. Patriotic poetry

Public death

Syndication

Image

Patrons

Readers

Poet-soldiers

Careful critics

Export

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).

ISBN:

1-942954-35-2