The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

Not to consider it too curiously, take " The Hill. The dramatic sonnet in English has not gone beyond that, for beauty, for brevity, for tragic effect,—nor, I add, for unspoken loyalty to reality.

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Reality was, perhaps, what he most dearly wished for; here he achieved it. In many another sonnet he won the laurel; but if I were to venture to choose, it is in the dramatic handling of the sonnet that he is most individual and characteristic. The second great success of his genius, formally considered, lay in the narrative idyl, either in the Miltonic way of flashing bits of English country landscape before the eye, as in " Grantchester ," or by applying essentially the same method to the water world of fishes or the South Sea world, both on a philosophic background.

These are all master poems of a kaleidoscopic beauty and charm, where the brief pictures play in and out of a woven veil of thought, irony, mood, with a delightful intellectual pleasuring. He thoroughly enjoys doing the poetical magic.

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Such bits of English retreats or Pacific paradises, so full of idyllic charm, exquisite in image and movement, are among the rarest of poetic treasures. The thought of Milton and of Marvell only adds an old world charm to the most modern of the works of the Muses. What lightness of touch, what ease of movement, what brilliancy of hue! Even in "Retrospect," what actuality! His good taste saves him from what in another would be shipwreck, but this indifference to values, this apparent lack of selection in material, while at times it gives a huddled flow, more than anything else "modernizes" the verse.

It yields, too, an effect of abundant vitality, and it makes facile the change from grave to gay and the like. It exists, however; and especially it was dear to Keats in his youth. It is by excellent taste, and by style, that the poet here overcomes its early difficulties.

In these three formal ways, besides in minor matters, it appears to me that Rupert Brooke, judged by the most orthodox standards, had succeeded in poetry. But in his first notes, if I may indulge my private taste, I find more of the intoxication of the god. These early poems are the lyrical cries and luminous flares of a dawn, no doubt; but they are incarnate of youth. Capital among them is " Blue Evening. In its whispering embraces of sense, in the terror of seizure of the spirit, in the tranquil euthanasia of the end by the touch of speechless beauty, it seems to me a true symbol of life whole and entire.

It is beautiful in language and feeling, with an extraordinary clarity and rise of power; and, above all, though rare in experience, it is real. A young poet's poem; but it has a quality never captured by perfect art.

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A poem for poets, no doubt; but that is the best kind. So, too, the poem, entitled " Sleeping Out ," charms me and stirs me with its golden clangors and crying flames of emotion as it mounts up to "the white one flame," to "the laughter and the lips of light. The "white flame" seems to have had a mystic meaning to the boy; it occurs repeatedly. And another poem,—not to make too long a story of my private enthusiasms—" Ante Aram ,"—wakes all my classical blood,—.

There is a grave in Scyros, amid the white and pinkish marble of the isle, the wild thyme and the poppies, near the green and blue waters. There Rupert Brooke was buried. Thither have gone the thoughts of his countrymen, and the hearts of the young especially. It will long be so. For a new star shines in the English heavens.

Sonnet suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. Additional poems and 'fragments' not included in this edition can be found in the 'Memoir' edition which contains a Memoir by Brooke's executor and friend Edward Marsh and a brief introduction by the father of Rupert Brooke. The poem entitled "Libido" in this edition is entitled "Lust" in the edition.

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Three poems are particularly suited for students of literature and medicine. Finger with finger wreathes; we love, and gape, Fantastic shape to mazed fantastic shape, Straggling, irregular, perplexed, embossed, Grotesquely twined, extravagantly lost By crescive paths and strange protuberant ways From sanity and from wholeness and from grace. It is the soliloquy three six lined stanzas ending with an eight line stanza of a person paralyzed in bed describing, initially, a sang froid attitude to paralysis and the normal bodiedness of a visiting friend the sexes of both are unspecified and then a wistful return to reality as the paralyzed person imagines the friend meeting a lover this is also not entirely clear in the woods.

The paralyzed narrator ends with the following lines addressing the absent friend: And still in the white neat bed I strive Most impotently against that gyve; Being less now than a thought, even, To you alone with your hills and heaven. The pun on "still" is it an adverb, or an adjective describing the immobility of the paralyzed person?

The last poem that involves an illness or medical condition is "Channel Passage" p.

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It is a sonnet of a sea-sick person in mock distress over whether to choose to think about a loved one or to yield to being sea-sick: And still the ship rolls. It is a poem many poets would trade their entire oeuvre to have written. Rupert Brooke experienced a minor resurgence in interest last year , the centennial of his death.

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Most critics seem now to feel that if he is not as great as many would wish him considered, he is also still under-appreciated. Richard Cohen Books, , pp.

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Accessed online 2 January Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers , p. The Diaries of F. Retrieved 8 January Jones, Nigel [ Metro Books]. Life, Death and Myth. A historical novel about Brooke and his relationship with a Tahitian woman, Taatamata, in —14 and with Nell Golightly a maid where he was living. References are made to the poet throughout. Two early 20th century writers and their debt to the poet. Garden City Publishing Company, , pp.