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Wet roofs, clean linen, distant seas: how much love can a short life hold?
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke brings together Poems from 1911, the verse that follows, and the war sonnets grouped as 1914. Here is a poet by turns witty, sensual, angry and tender. His short, musical poems explore love, youth, travel and the pull of home, with room for play as well as solemn feeling.
In The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, Brooke turns toward a village near Cambridge while living far away in Berlin. In The Great Lover, wet roofs, burning wood and a hot cup become things to cherish. Alongside these poems, the war sonnets offer another mood, inviting you to explore a poet whose work readers continue to debate.
What you’ll discover
- Love with a sharp edge Meet early poems that play with form, tease the sonnet and explore the pain of love.
- The ache of home Follow The Old Vicarage, Grantchester toward a beloved place seen from far away.
- Small things worth loving Find the warmth of clean linen and a hot cup in The Great Lover.
- Travel and distant seas Explore travel poems alongside work shaped during years that include journeys to the South Pacific.
- The war sonnets Read the sonnets grouped as 1914 beside the love poems, wit and homesick verse.
Who will love it
You will love this book if you enjoy love poems, English landscape, travel verse, war poetry and sharp comic rhymes, and if you like reading poems aloud.
What’s inside
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- The early poems face night, death and doubt
- Mocking wit cuts through the grand gestures
- Love is shown as wonder, doubt and loss
- Travel poems carry the poet to far shores
- Lists of small joys praise the living world
- The 1914 poems turn toward war
- Grantchester and the lighter verse close the book
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What does a young man write when he sees both a gentle English summer and a coming war? Rupert Brooke wrote poems about lovers, the sea, the dead and Grantchester.
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The early poems face night, death and doubt
The collection opens with poems written between 1905 and 1908. They speak to the heart in the dark and ask what is left once the old hopes of heaven are gone. Night, silence and the sea come back again and again.
In Second Best the speaker tells his heart to give up dreams of immortality and to meet death as a friend. In The Day I Have Loved, a finished day is laid in a boat and rowed out to sea like a body. In Pine Trees and the Sky, a sad evening turns to peace when the poet looks at dark pines against a pale sky.
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What is The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke about?
It gathers Brooke's poems on love, death, nature, travel and war. Early poems face night and doubt, later ones praise ordinary joys, the 1914 sonnets greet the war, and the appendix adds light comic verse.
What is the poem The Soldier about?
The Soldier is a sonnet in which a speaker imagines his own death abroad. He asks that a corner of a foreign field be thought of as England, because his body and heart were shaped by her.
What are the 1914 poems in this collection?
There are five: Peace, Safety, two poems called The Dead, and The Soldier. They speak of honour, sacrifice and a calm acceptance of death.
The author
Rupert Brooke
1887–1915 · English poet
Rupert Brooke was an English poet born in Rugby in 1887. He studied at Cambridge and lived in Grantchester. His first collection, Poems, appeared in 1911. He served in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War and died aboard a hospital ship near the Greek island of Skyros in 1915.
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