Rupert Brooke

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Standard Name: Brooke, Rupert
RB , one of the leading voices in the early twentieth-century Georgian movement in poetry, is remembered primarily as a war poet, although he died before the First World War was a year old.
Black-and-white, head-and-shoulders photo of Rupert Brooke taken by Sherril Schell in 1913. Brooke leans a little forward and turns to look into the camera. He has wavy hair, and is wearing a suit and large cravat.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Naomi Royde-Smith
The papers of Rupert Brooke at King's College, Cambridge , include a manuscript review of the first poetry anthology.
Janus. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/.
under Brooke, Rupert Chawner
Material Conditions of Writing Pat Arrowsmith
PA kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train...
Occupation Frances Cornford
Rupert Brooke 's production of Milton 's Comus, for which Frances Darwin (later Cornford ) designed the costumes, opened at the New Theatre in Cambridge.
Delany, Paul. The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth. Free Press, 1987.
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Occupation Naomi Royde-Smith
She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber, 1988.
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Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
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Her list of...
Publishing Mary Renault
This novel's appearance was eclipsed by the Normandy landings, just as MR 's previous novel had been by Dunkirk. Her US publishers were worried. They waited five months to publish because of the text's...
Reception Rose Macaulay
To celebrate the appearance of her collection, RM threw a party at her flat to which she ambitiously invited Walter de la Mare . He attended, as did her publisher for this book, Frank Sidgwick
Textual Features Frances Cornford
In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...
Textual Features Rose Macaulay
Like RM 's previous novel, this is concerned with the difficulty of choosing between competing ideologies. Its heroine, Alix Sandomir, is a young disabled woman, an artist who moves from staying with one set of...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
SJ 's novel The Lovely Ship opened a trilogy. The others, The Voyage Home and A Richer Dust, followed in January 1930 and in 1931; all three appeared together as The Triumph of Time...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
The selection was made in conjunction with BBC staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under...
Textual Production Iris Tree
Not long afterwards, IT was discovered again, this time by classical scholar Edward Marsh .
Marsh was editor of Rupert Brooke 's poems and of the anthology Georgian Poetry, whose five volumes appeared between...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM published the novel An Unofficial Rose. The title has several sources: the heroine, Anne Peronett, is likened to a wild rose; the Red Rose of Lancaster is rosa gallica officinalis; and Rupert Brooke

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