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Pub. Sidgewick & Jackson, London, 1966, reprint hardcover 8vo with dj, 167pp., 2 sections, 7 chapters, appendix, INDEX of First Lines.
Condition: Crisp red cloth-bound hardcover boards with bright gilt title to spine, STRAIGHT, CLEAN & TIGHT in GOOD CONDITION without inscriptions, in an unclipped (25/-)FAIR PLUS DUSTJACKET with rubbing and edgewear, intact and robust.
In this edition, the poems are printed, as far as possible, in the order in which they were written, tracing his development as a poet from the early verse of 1906-1908 to the great war sonnets of 1914.
"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;'
Rupert Brooke : A Biography
by Christopher Hassall
pub. Faber & Faber, London, 1972, softcover 8vo, 556pp.,14 chapters, appendix. Index.
Condition: Large-format softcover with some mild wear to the cover, age-stains to the page edges and prelims, a name to the frenpr in pen, interior is STRAIGHT, CLEAN & TIGHT in FAIR PLUS CONDITION.
This biography reveals a man far more complex and actively involved in the movements of his time, rather than the usual image of a Young Apollo. Hassall deploys his discoveries in polished, leisurely, unobtrusive language. The many letters by Brooke that he includes are memorable.
4. Ephemera: (a) typewritten copy of a letter to The Listener dated 1979 from a "female octegenarian", and friend of Brooke who writes in defence of Brooke. "We WERE romantics...we were all very young and very succeptible...Rupert did not die "ignominiously"--he DIED." (b) SMH newsclipping from 1984 regarding J.M Keynes, whose (?)brother edited Brook's work (3) undated article by Beatrice Faust regarding Lytton Strachley who was connected to Brooke through Virginia Woolfe
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