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Rupert Brooke
Nigel Jones
其他書名
Life, Death and Myth
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014-11-06
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
ISBN17818571569781781857151
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=A7CfEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.