The Poetical Works

Resumen del libro

No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day. The reputation of Rupert Brooke has survived many changes of literary fashion since his death in the Aegean in 1915, aged twenty-eight.

This standard edition of his poems was edited and arranged by his great friend Geoffrey Keynes. It includes a considerable number of early pieces, among them two of his longest poems, 'The Pyramids' and 'The Bastille'.

Biografía del autor

Rupert Chawner Brooke (Rugby, 3 de agosto de 1887 Mar Egeo, 23 de abril de 19152 ) fue un poeta inglés conocido por sus sonetos idealistas sobre la guerra, escritos durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (especialmente El soldado); sin embargo, nunca experimentó el combate de primera mano. También era famoso por su apariencia física que llevó al poeta irlandés William Butler Yeats a describirlo como el joven más guapo en Inglaterra . Es uno de los 16 'war poets' británicos, poetas que evolucionaran al realismo pacifista al enfrentarse al conflicto bélico.