"... Even in the poems where most we feel the lack of emotional truth there is a beauty of word that made the book full of the most exciting promise. Already, too there was in certain poems assurance against the danger that this intellectual constraint might degenerate into virtuosity."—From "RUPERT BROOKE," by John Drinkwater, in the Contemporary Review, December 1915.
*** The poems on pp. 7-38 of Selected Poems are taken from the above volume.
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1914 and other Poems
by Rupert Brooke
With a Photogravure Portrait by
SHERRIL SCHELL
Twenty-eighth Impression
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"To those of us who see in poetry the perfect flowering of life, the story of Rupert Brooke will always mean chiefly the score or so of poems in which he reached to the full maturity of his genius and gave imperishable expression to the very heart of his personality.... Not even the fact that the man who wrote the sonnets, than which after long generations nothing shall make the year 1914 more memorable, served and died for England at war, can add one beat to their pulse. The poetry that shines and falls across them in one perfect and complete wave is, as poetry must always be, independent of all factual experience, and comes wholly from the deeper experience of the imagination."—From "RUPERT BROOKE" by John Drinkwater, in the Contemporary Review. December 1915.
*** The poems on pp. 39-75 of Selected Poems are taken from the above volume.
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