Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

ISBN-13: 9781781857038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 624 str.

Nigel Jones

Opis

A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of an English literary icon
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. The 27-year-old author of the patriotic sonnet "The Soldier" was buried in a grave strewn with olive branches and scented with sage. 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, with a new chapter on a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth."

Recenzje

'Intelligent, witty and definitive: this is literary biography at its best' Andrew Roberts

O autorze

Nigel Jones is an author, a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, and has been a TV and radio broadcaster.