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NEW EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION FROM THE
BROOKE SOCIETY
If I should die, think only
this of me;
That there's some corner of a foreign
field
That is forever England.
The
Soldier
Today Rupert Brooke is probably best
known as one of the famous First World War poets. His
War Sonnets, including ‘The Soldier’, are present in
this new edition of his Collected Poems which, with a
new introduction by the Rupert Brooke Society’s Chair,
Lorna Beckett, aims to introduce a new generation of
readers to his passionate and accomplished poetry.
THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION
Brooke has
continued to fascinate people of all ages and walks of
life ever since his untimely death en route to Gallipoli
on St George’s Day 1915, at the age of 27. He lived his
short life with intensity – he was not only a poet, but
also a scholar, dramatist, literary critic, travel
writer, political activist and soldier. Brooke had a
large circle of friends, many of them leading figures of
their generation including Virginia Woolf, Winston
Churchill and W. B. Yeats.
COMPLETE EDITION OF
ALL BROOKE POEMS
Oh, is the water sweet and
cool,
Gentle and brown, above the pool?
And laughs
the immortal river still
Under the mill, under the
mill?
Say, is there Beauty yet to find?
And
Certainty? and Quiet kind?
Deep meadows yet, for to
forget
The lies, and truths, and pain?… oh!
yet
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And
is there honey still for tea?
The Old Vicarage,
Grantchester
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