Rupert Brooke

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Standard Name: Brooke, Rupert
RB , one of the leading voices in the early twentieth-century Georgian movement in poetry, is remembered primarily as a war poet, although he died before the First World War was a year old.

Connections

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Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
The selection was made in conjunction with BBC staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under...
Textual Production Iris Tree
Not long afterwards, IT was discovered again, this time by classical scholar Edward Marsh .
Marsh was editor of Rupert Brooke 's poems and of the anthology Georgian Poetry, whose five volumes appeared between...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Stevenson
He came back into her adult life in September 1953, and finally the Great Marriage Problem seemed settled.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
9: 279
American boyfriends tried to dissuade her, but she ignored them boneheadedly.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
9: 279
She...
Literary responses Lady Margaret Sackville
Whitney Womack has recently written that LMS 's war poetry should be read alongside the war poetry of Rupert Brooke , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , Siegfried Sassoon , and Isaac Rosenberg , as...
Occupation Naomi Royde-Smith
She covered drama criticism for two years, but remained literary editor for a decade.
Eliot, T. S. The Letters of T.S. Eliot. Editor Eliot, Valerie, Faber and Faber.
1: 149n1
Mary Agnes Hamilton wrote later: she was a wonderful editor, whose discoveries were endless.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
137
Her list of...
Literary responses Naomi Royde-Smith
The papers of Rupert Brooke at King's College, Cambridge , include a manuscript review of the first poetry anthology.
Janus. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/.
under Brooke, Rupert Chawner
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Ridler
AR 's father, Henry Christopher Bradby , was a housemaster at Rugby School , where he had succeeded the father of Rupert Brooke . He died in 1947, and at his funeral a friend called...
Publishing Mary Renault
This novel's appearance was eclipsed by the Normandy landings, just as MR 's previous novel had been by Dunkirk. Her US publishers were worried. They waited five months to publish because of the text's...
Intertextuality and Influence Winsome Pinnock
Leave Taking deals with the ongoing trauma of migration, the gulf in attitudes between a Jamaica-born woman and her London-born daughters. It deals, too, with life-cycles: each generation placing its hopes in the next, each...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM published the novel An Unofficial Rose. The title has several sources: the heroine, Anne Peronett, is likened to a wild rose; the Red Rose of Lancaster is rosa gallica officinalis; and Rupert Brooke
Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
450
Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
The same year she got to know Edward Marsh . Her early years with Murry (and her visits to Garsington Manor) further developed her network of relationships with writers and artists. At Runcton in 1912...
Friends, Associates Rose Macaulay
Friends who attended the house-warming of her London flat included Naomi Royde-Smith , Rupert Brooke , and Walter de la Mare .
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago.
100
Friends, Associates Rose Macaulay
Rupert Brooke was initially a family friend (six years younger) of RM . The independent friendship they established lasted until his death in the First World War. Of Macaulay's biographers, Emery suggests she may have...

Timeline

1 January 1913: Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at...

Writing climate item

1 January 1913

Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in Bloomsbury.

16 September 1919: This Side of Paradise, the first novel by...

Writing climate item

16 September 1919

This Side of Paradise, the first novel by the not yet twenty-four-old F. Scott Fitzgerald (titled from a poem by Rupert Brooke ), was accepted for publication by Scribner's .
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
16 September 2010, 16 September 2011

Texts

Brooke, Rupert. 1914 and Other Poems. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1915.
Brooke, Rupert, and Henry James. Letters From America. Editor Marsh, Edward, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916.