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War Poet : Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

25 April 202206 juillet 2007 by Matt Biscay · Lecture: 2 minutes

Biography Brooke’s poems were very famous and influential. His War Sonnets, published in 1915, caught very well the mood of the time. He was born in 1887 in a very wealthy family and was educated at Rugby School and at King’s college, Cambridge. He was said to be strikingly handsome and the unfair reasons why …

World War One poetry: a problematic issue

9 January 202106 juillet 2007 by Matt Biscay · Lecture: 4 minutes

Introduction War poetry is not a school of poetry in itself but it played a tremendous part since it inspired a new birth of inspiration. It was a totally new experience: nothing like that before in poetry, no war like WW1 before. War had already been a subject for poetry but never with such feelings. …