Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth
- ISBN-10
- 1781857156
- ISBN-13
- 9781781857151
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-11-06
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Author
- Nigel Jones
Description
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, aged just 27. 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, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.
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