• Rupert Brooke

  • Collected Poems
  • By: Rupert Brooke
  • Narrated by: Robert Bethune
  • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Rupert Brooke

By: Rupert Brooke
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
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Rupert Brooke possessed one of the most amazingly sensitive, amazingly sensual poetic minds of the 20th century. Born into a world swiftly sliding into war, torn between highly idealized, romanticized relationships with men and conflicted, often bitter love for women, he expressed his complex emotions and vivid perceptions in verse of startling force, striking sensory intensity, and sometimes sly and biting humor. He left us just under 100 poems before his terribly untimely death of sepsis while serving in the British Navy in World War I.

His war poems made his reputation, particularly "The Soldier" ("there is some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England.") Ironically, his poem fits his own death; he was buried in Greece, fulfilling his own words.

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  • 03-26-22

I don’t know about the poetry but

one thing I do know for sure is that I do not enjoy the readings of Robert Bethune

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