Author: LEHMANN, JOHN
Title: The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke
Description: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 003057479X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiii + 178 pages. 17 illustrations. Famous in his time as 'the handsomest young man in England' and the heroic soldier-poet of World War I, Rupert Brooke is a classic example of a man undone by his legend. Having inspired an orgy of praise after his tragic death en route to the Gallipoli campaign, and the publication of his patriotic '1914' sonnets, he seemed to have scaled the heights of poetry's Olympus. But in the disillusionment of the post-war era, his reputation tumbled and has never recovered. In this skillful blend of biography and literary criticism, John Lehmann draws a fascinating portrait of the man and the legend, separating the complex reality from the romantic fantasy, the meretricious from the meritorious in his verse. He evokes the Edwardian age in which Brooke flourished and the hectic first months of the war in which he perished. B2C. Near Fine/Very Good.

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