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Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-14 by Rupert Brooke |
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Customarily portrayed as a golden-haired Adonis, the young poet Rupert Brooke died in 1915 en route to action in World War I; his premature death putting the seal on an already flourishing legend and ensuring that the gilded image posthumously nurtured by friends stayed firmly in place until the 1980's. Jones has drawn upon recent studies to produce this magnificent volume which reassesses Brooke in the light of new evidence, principally his vast correspondence which show him to have been an infinitely more complex and contradictory character than has commonly been assumed. Although it may sound as if he is following the current trend for debunking the great and the good, Jones is simply rescuing Brooke from the distorting myth that surrounds his name; one of the book's greatest strengths is in its admirably well balanced approach to its subject. With new energy and clarity the charming, caustic figure of the real Rupert Brooke shines forth from these pages: an indispensable read for anyone who wants to probe behind the glamorous veneer. (Kirkus UK)
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"Rupert Brooke, isn't it a romantic name?" wrote Lytton Strachey to Virginia Woolf, after first meeting the man who became the "star" of an exceptionally brilliant generation. But behind the facade of the stunning looks and the golden-boy image a very different Brooke was concealed that was far from romantic - and is now revealed in this utterly candid biography. After cutting a swathe through his contemporaries at Rugby and Cambridge, Brooke became the central figure in two distinct coteries - the homosexual Cambridge secret society "the Apostles" and the "Neo-Pagans", a group of free-thinking young people sworn to a carefree outdoor life of gypsy camps, nude swimming and the great outdoors. This compartmentalism was typical of Brooke - addicted to secrecy, he was loved by both men and women, and was himself highly sexually ambivalent. His boyish charm bowled over (almost) all those who met him - including the contemporary great and good like Asquith, Churchill, H.G. Wells and Henry James. But the surface self-confidence and the effortless literary and social success hid a darker Brooke - revealed in this book. At the height of his promise, a seemingly trivial setback in love propelled Brooke into a complete mental and physical collapse, which stripped him of his defences and brought his inner complexes seething to the surface.
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Customarily portrayed as a golden-haired Adonis, the young poet Rupert Brooke died in 1915 en route to action in World War I; his premature death putting the seal on an already flourishing legend and ensuring that the gilded image posthumously nurtured by friends stayed firmly in place until the 1980's. Jones has drawn upon recent studies to produce this magnificent volume which reassesses Brooke in the light of new evidence, principally his vast correspondence which show him to have been an infinitely more complex and contradictory character than has commonly been assumed. Although it may sound as if he is following the current trend for debunking the great and the good, Jones is simply rescuing Brooke from the distorting myth that surrounds his name; one of the book's greatest strengths is in its admirably well balanced approach to its subject. With new energy and clarity the charming, caustic figure of the real Rupert Brooke shines forth from these pages: an indispensable read for anyone who wants to probe behind the glamorous veneer. (Kirkus UK)
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"Rupert Brooke, isn't it a romantic name?" wrote Lytton Strachey to Virginia Woolf, after first meeting the man who became the "star" of an exceptionally brilliant generation. But behind the facade of the stunning looks and the golden-boy image a very different Brooke was concealed that was far from romantic - and is now revealed in this utterly candid biography. After cutting a swathe through his contemporaries at Rugby and Cambridge, Brooke became the central figure in two distinct coteries - the homosexual Cambridge secret society "the Apostles" and the "Neo-Pagans", a group of free-thinking young people sworn to a carefree outdoor life of gypsy camps, nude swimming and the great outdoors. This compartmentalism was typical of Brooke - addicted to secrecy, he was loved by both men and women, and was himself highly sexually ambivalent. His boyish charm bowled over (almost) all those who met him - including the contemporary great and good like Asquith, Churchill, H.G. Wells and Henry James. But the surface self-confidence and the effortless literary and social success hid a darker Brooke - revealed in this book. At the height of his promise, a seemingly trivial setback in love propelled Brooke into a complete mental and physical collapse, which stripped him of his defences and brought his inner complexes seething to the surface.
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