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A review by maplessence
1914 and Other Poems by Rupert Brooke
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)
Yeesh.
3* seems fair.
Lest we forget.
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.