Rupert Brooke: Life Death and Myth
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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 Joness admired biography including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brookes reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.
