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1914, and Other Poems by Rupert Brooke

queenkaiser's review

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2.0

Some lovely lines and stanzas scattered throughout but overall pretty dull.

maplessence's review against another edition

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3.0

I want to think about both my rating & review on this one!

It's ANZAC Day tomorrow & my husband & I used to read poetry by Brooke, Wilfred Owen & Siegfried Sassoon on this day - don't know why we stopped. & maybe I should have gone for a collection of WW1 poems because it's hard to believe the beautiful & conflicted young man



who gave us The Soldier (If I should die, think only this of me...) also wrote dreck like this (a fragment from The Great Lover)

I have been so great a lover:filled my days
So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise,
The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,
Desire illimitable,and still content...


Yeesh.

3* seems fair.

Lest we forget.

sar_p's review

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2.0

I read it for the poems on war, which weren't many.

sar_p's review against another edition

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2.0

I read it for the poems on war, which weren't many.
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