Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke

by Mike Read

Strikingly handsome, charming, and gifted, the English poet Rupert Brooke was the embodiment of a generation that was all but destroyed between 1914 and 1918. In Forever England, Brooke's exceptional body of work emerges dramatically from a colorful and tangled life. 256 pp 6 x 9 80 b/w photos

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997

Reviews

[Suzy · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the few books that brought tears to my eyes from it poignancy. It will soon be 100 years since Rupert Brooke died so tragically but he is a man to trandscend generations with his poetry and his 'savoir vivre'. He would not be out of place today. Mike Read has done a wonderful job of bringing the romantic back to life in our imaginations. Thank you, Mike Read. it is a book I will read time and again...

[Bodil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some years ago my son and I walked from Cambridge to Grantchester and had a lovely cream tea at The Orchard. I think that this was the first time I really heard about Rupert Brooke. (I am afraid that I find poetry a bit heavy going in English!) Anyhow, I found this biography of him interesting. He must have a very special, and also a very complicated, person who lived in a very different time. There are a great number of names in this book, and I am afraid that I lost track of many of them. Although some of them, such as Virginia Woolf and Gwen Raverat, are very familiar to me, I could have used a list of all them!

[Danielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

i love this man. thus- i don't think any biography could do him justed. i read this through jaded eyes.