Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic – and sometimes alarmingly unstable. This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.
| ISBN: | 9781781857038 |
| Publication date: | 3rd March 2024 |
| Author: | Nigel Jones |
| Publisher: | Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 624 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: general Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |