THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE

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Text/Bright, clean, As New. Gilt embossed leather boards/Good w/nips, chips, rubs to edges & surfaces, lesions to spine, weak hinges, and reference number pasted to lower spine. Upper text edge in gilt. Frontispiece: Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) portrait w/tissue guard. First published 1919; this is a printing of 1927. Already admired for his verse, fllowing his death, soldier-poet Brooke became a symbol in England of the tragic loss of talented youth claimed by World War I.et known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially The Soldier. He was also known for his boyish good looks, which prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".[citation needed] . N° de ref. del artículo 010986

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