About this book
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. - Summary by Carolin
Chapters (32)
11914 - I - Peace
21914 - II - Safety
31914 - III - The Dead
41914 - IV - The Dead
51914 - V - The Soldier
6The Treasure
7Tiare Tahiti
8Retrospect
9The Great Lover
10Heaven
11Doubts
12There's Wisdom in Women
13He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her
14A Memory
15One Day
16Waikiki
17Hauntings
18Sonnet
19Clouds
20Mutability
21The Busy Heart
22Love
23Unfortunate
24The Chilterns
25Home
26The Night Journey
27Song
28Beauty and Beauty
29The Way that Lovers Use
30Mary and Gabriel
31The Funeral of Youth - Threnody
32The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
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