Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

By Nigel Jones

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781857032
• ISBN13: 9781781857038
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"