Rupert Brooke
Life, Death and Myth
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Engelska, 2014107 kr
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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.
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.
