Rupert Brooke

Life, Death and Myth

By: Nigel Jones

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Paperback | 11 June 2015

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A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade 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.

Industry Reviews

'Intelligent, witty and definitive: this is literary biography at its best' Andrew Roberts.
'This book is more than another contribution to the Great War centenary ... This is a big book about a short life that has a great deal to say about those who ran the Empire' The Herald.
'Poignant and illuminating, this is a fascinating study of the poet, his era, and the creation of a myth' Editor's Choice for the Good Book Guide.
'Jones's shocking 1990 biography is updated but is still the myth-buster to beat all myth-busters' Sunday Herald.
'This closely observed account of the poet and his privileged milieu is an absorbing read' The Independent.

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