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- Publisher: Richard Cohen Books; First Edition edition (1999)
- ASIN: B003D1QNPE
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I do not read a great deal of poetry, but I do like biography and this is a good one in my opinion. A good one for me is compelling and authentic, sensitive to the period but not afraid to give us the 'whole' story and not a cleaned-up and over-reverent one. The reader will find out more than they bargained for in this biog - Rupert was no angel and had some unpleasant ideas about many things, women in particular. James Strachey summed him up: "Rupert Brooke was not as nice as people think, but a lot more clever", and after reading this latest version of his life I would have to agree.
13 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Rupert Brooke was a wonderful prose stylist, so it is surprising that a modern biographer has not taken more care over his own writing (grammar, proof-reading, etc.). For example:
P. 66: "he would never grew old" P. 74: "Brooke's own lack of stage skills were all too apparent" P. 142: "He no longer hopes, he says to make a new world" P. 255: "what passed between he and Ka" P. 267: "A much more serious portent for his future then green semen came in a letter from Noel" P. 305: "he had 'unluckily ran into...'." P. 343: "the future fates of both he and Jacques" P. 348: "the combination beguiled an entranced a Brooke only too ready, at last, for real physical romance and uninhibited love". P. 415: "two British and one French battleship were sunk" P. 428: "as much from a deep desire to escape the complexities and compromises of existence than to lay down his life for others"
We really are entitled to better than this in a literary biography.
9 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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I have read, lived, and loved Rupert Brooke, and it's amazing to think that I had had no knowledge of the poet before I read this biography. Befitting the poet's short life, this biography by Nigel Jones is full of friendship, love, unrequited at most times, homosexuality, heady with intelligentsia which included the wicked Strachey brothers, and Cambridge. I, for one, have at many times started reading a biography only to give it up as hopeless after the subject passed the age of 25 or so. Sadly, life just doesn't seem very interesting after youth. Not so with Rupert Brooke. He never had a chance to reach an age where his life could have seemed uninteresting. And short lives make up the best biographies. The leitmotiv of this biography is innocence. The innocence of the poet, his world, and the outside world at the time of the poet's short life. I thank both the poet himself and Mr. Jones for giving me a glimpse of the time and place where one could afford to be innocent and romantic with one's whole self.
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