About this book
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), as well as for his poetry written outside of war, especially The Old Vicarage, Grantchester and The Great Lover. He was also known for his boyish good looks, which prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". (Summary from Wikipedia)
Chapters (94)
1Second Best
2Day That I Have Loved
3Sleeping Out: Full Moon
4In Examination
5Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening
6Wagner
7The Vision of the Archangels
8Seaside
9On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess
10The Song of the Pilgrims
11The Song of the Beasts
12Failure
13Ante Aram
14Dawn
15The Call
16The Wayfarers
17The Beginning
18Sonnet: "Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire"
19Sonnet: "I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true"
20Success
21Dust
22Kindliness
23Mummia
24The Fish
25Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body
26Flight
27The Hill
28The One Before the Last
29The Jolly Company
30The Life Beyond
31Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia
32Dead Men's Love
33Town and Country
34Paralysis
35Menelaus and Helen
36Libido [also known as "Lust"]
37Jealousy
38Blue Evening
39The Charm
40Finding
41Song
42The Voice
43Dining-Room Tea
44The Goddess in the Wood
45A Channel Passage
46Victory
47Day and Night
48Choriambics - I
49Choriambics - II
50Desertion
511914: I. Peace
521914: II. Safety
531914: III. The Dead
541914: IV. The Dead
551914: V. The Soldier
56The Treasure
57Tiare Tahiti
58Retrospect
59The Great Lover
60Heaven
61Doubts
62There's Wisdom in Women
63He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her
64A Memory (From a sonnet-sequence)
65One Day
66Waikiki
67Hauntings
68Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research)
69Clouds
70Mutability
71The Busy Heart
72Love
73Unfortunate
74The Chilterns
75Home
76The Night Journey
77Song
78Beauty and Beauty
79The Way That Lovers Use
80Mary and Gabriel
81The Funeral of Youth: Threnody
82The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
83Fafaia
84Fragment
85The Dance
86Song
87Sometimes Even Now...
88Sonnet: In Time of Revolt
89A Letter to a Live Poet
90Fragment on Painters
91The True Beatitude
92Sonnet Reversed
93It's not Going to Happen Again
94The Little Dog's Day
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