BROOKE, Rupert.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.
"A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out all the years": The Medici Society Edition of The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to The Medici Society, 1919.
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The Medici Society limited edition collection of Rupert Brooke's classic poems. Octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, woodcut frontispiece portrait of Rupert Brooke and title page vignette. One of 1,000 paper copies, this is number 546. In very good condition. Woodcuts by G. Raverat.
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) was an English poet whose work is emblematic of the Georgian school, blending a refined pastoral sensibility with a lyrical idealism that found its most enduring expression in his wartime verse. Educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge, Brooke cultivated a style marked by classical allusion, precise imagery, and melodic phrasing, qualities that lent his poetry an air of cultivated elegance. His early works often celebrate the beauty of the English countryside and the pleasures of youth, yet it is his 1914 and Other Poems, written on the eve of the First World War, that secured his lasting fame. Sonnets such as “The Soldier” articulated a noble, almost sacrificial vision of patriotic duty, capturing the mood of an England still untouched by the war’s full devastation. Brooke’s premature death from septicemia in 1915, en route to Gallipoli, elevated him to the status of a cultural icon, and Winston Churchill famously praised him in The Times as, “all that one could wish England’s nobility to be."
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.
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