Brooke & Owen: Everyman's Poetry by Rupert Brooke

Brooke & Owen: Everyman's Poetry by Rupert Brooke

Two of Britains most celebrated war poems, Brooke and Owen,died tragically youngyet left an enduring legacy of work. Their accounts of life in the trenches have defined our understanding of the First World War.

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), a member of the group of British poets who rose to prominence during World War I, sprang to fame when two of his combat sonnets (The Dead and The Soldier) were published in London's Times Literary Supplement on March 11, 1915. 1914 and Other Poems was released less than two months later, and by June 1918, it had gone through 24 prints. Brooke sailed on a Navy ship in February 1915, after being enlisted into the British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, to fight at Gallipoli in Turkey. He died of sepsis caused by an infected mosquito bite shortly after, at the age of 27, on a French hospital ship docked off the coast of Skyros in the Aegean Sea. Brooke was laid to rest in an olive grove on the Greek island of Skyros.

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ISBN 13	9780460878012
ISBN 10	0460878018
Title	Brooke & Owen: Everyman's Poetry
Author	Rupert Brooke
Series	Everyman Paperback Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	1997-03-24
Number of pages	128
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