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Publisher: New York J. LanePublication date: 1916Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: John Lane Publication date: 1918Subjects: Biography ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:kind of wistful mockery, at the thought of an immortality where all is typical and nothing real:And you'll no longer swing and sway Divinely down the scented shade, Where feet to Ambulation fade, And moons are lost in endless Day. How shall we wind these wreaths of ours, Where there are neither heads nor flowers? . . . Next, he momentarily wafts himself into the being of a Shade:So a poor ghost, beside his misty streams, Is haunted by strange doubts, evasive dreams, Hints of a pre-Lethean life, of men, Stars, rocks, and flesh, things unintelligible, And light on waving grass, he knows not when; And feet that ran, but where, he cannot tell. Next, he deprecates the possibility of a future life even as tenuous and nebulous as this:Poor straws! on the dark flood we catch awhile, Cling, and are borne into the night apart. The laugh dies with the lips, " Love " with the lover. And, again, he is lost in rapture at the possibility which he mocked at in the first poem, sighed at inchapter{Section 4the second, belittled in the third, and denied in the fourth:Not dead, not undesirous yet,Still sentient, still unsatisfied, We'll ride the air, and shine, and flit, Around the places where we died,And dance as dust before the sun, And light of foot, and unconfmed, Hurry from road to road, and run About the errands of the wind. And every mote, on earth or air,Will speed and gleam, down later days,And like a secret pilgrim fare By eager and invisible ways, Nor ever rest, nor ever lie,Till, beyond thinking, out of view,One mote of all the dust that's IShall meet one atom that was you.Then in some garden hushed from wind,Warm in a sunset's afterglow, The lovers in the flowers will find A sweet and strange... ... Read more

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A six-year correspondence between the World War I poet and his schoolgirl muse, Noel Oliver, edited by Oliver's granddaughter, provides a glimpse of Edwardian England as it reveals the true and enduring nature of young love. 10,000 first printing. ... Read more

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Rare insight into unrequited love
Some of the most beautiful & heart felt love letters. The letters do become sad & painful as you go along. There are some superb examples of true passion in this book(provided you can find one!!!). The only copy that I had gone thru is now missing from the local library:(

A look at Rupert Brooke
I have always found Rupert Brooke to be a fascinating poet, so when I was in York and discovered this little treasure (for sale, no less) I bought it.I'd started it a couple of times but never got around to completing the book.Then, I resolutely decided to read it, and I found it completely entrancing.You get something from this book about Brooke that you could never get from a biography: his yearning, passion, anger.... all in his very own words.It was hard for me to put down, and any fan of Brooke's should most definitely look into it.

Great book
This book is fantastic and gives a good look into Rupert's relationship with Noel. The incite into Rupert's love life and his feeling for Noel and his friends is worth getting the book alone. ... Read more

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Rupert Brooke met Noel Olivier in 1908. She was 15, a shy intelligent schoolgirl, and he was 20. Their correspondence over the seven years before the poet's death in 1915 is presented in this volume. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1921Original Publisher: Greenwood PressOriginal Identifier: ISBN:0837164567Subjects: Poets, EnglishSoldiersBiographyGreat Britain20th centuryBrooke, RupertBiography ... Read more

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Originally published in 1918.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography ... Read more