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1914 and Other Poems
Rupert Brooke
Book Overview:
This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems.
This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems.
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And wandering loveliness. He leaves a white
Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance,
A width, a shining peace, under the night.
[Pg 15]
V. THE SOLDIER If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
[Pg 16]
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Community Reviews
Who could improve on Rupert Brooke? ...oh! and yet
Stands the church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?
I am a poetry girlie now.
Brooke was one of the War Poets and one of many many men who lost their lives in the Great War. His poems are powerful and evocative and make one wonder how far his career would have gone if he hadn't died so young.
I picked up this collection as part of my World War One reading, but this isn't really a World War One collection. It features, as part of 1914, the famous "The Soldier" aka "If I should die think only this of me'.
It's interesting that the most famous Brooke lines are parts of longer poems. I've al
Found a beautiful first edition of this collection at the used bookstore I work at.
I thought 1914 was a wonderfully pleasant surprise. I've never heard of Brooke or his work but I really enjoyed this. It's definitely a collection I would like to revisit again, particularly sitting outside in nature
Quite a mix of sentimental poetry, travel poetry, and war poetry. I could savor the lines and the images which his poetry evokes. I found reading this poetry is best done one poem at a time with time in between to get the rhythm, meter, and rhyme out of your head from the last poem before getting in
I've never really liked Rupert Brooke, though mostly in the past it was because of his war poems and he seems too proudly English for my tastes. I decided to give him another read, and found that actually aside from his war poems he was pretty competent as a poet. He's still not exactly a favourite
This copy was found in November 2016 in Barter's Books, Northumberland. 70 years ago it had been given as a gift with the inscription:
To Joan
With all love
Robbie
Nov. 1946
Whilst wearing my poppy bracelet on my wrist, this book fell open to page 15 to this oh so familiar of poems:
V. THE SOLDIER
If I s