The Boulevard of the Allies Jun 29, 2008
The war spawned great novels that became great movies ("All Quiet on the Western Front," for example), great poems (by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke) and great memoirs (those of Lawrence of Arabia and Winston Churchill, to start) but mostly great losses. In truth, no novel, no poem, is quite as moving, quite as devastating, as simply reading the names of the fallen, recorded on the polished white granite war memorials that stand in every village in Europe -- or on the walls of... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald Jun 24, 2008
THE ROMANTIC EGOTISTby F. SCOTT FITZGERALD the Best is overYou may complain and sighOh Silly Lover Rupert Brooke Experience is the name Tubby gives to his mistakes ... It shows traces of Tarkington, Chesterton, Chambers, Wells, Benson (Robert Hugh), Rupert Brooke and includes Compton-McKenzielike love-affairs and three psychic adventures including an encounter with the devil in a harlot s apartment. (Harper's Magazine)
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Come on in, the water's lovely May 26, 2008
As a swimming place, the Cam was made famous by poet Rupert Brooke and his band of friends dubbed the "Cambridge neo-Pagans". The group, which included EM Forster and Virginia Woolf, were agnostic freethinkers, slept outdoors and swam under the stars in a river smelling of "mint and mud". (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Home from home May 17, 2008
The focus for his ire was the group known as the Georgians, which included John Masefield, Rupert Brooke, JC Squire, Lascelles Abercrombie and others. Tilting sombrero to top hat, Pound challenged Abercrombie to a duel, on the basis that "stupidity carried beyond a certain point becomes a public menace". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Around Town -- March 28 Mar 29, 2008
I came across a few lines from British poet Rupert Brooke, who wrote, "All suddenly the wind comes soft, and spring is here again." We haven t quite felt that soft wind yet, but it will come any day now. Have a wonderful week. (Pembroke Mariner, MA)
Feelings of Loneliness Can be Overcome Feb 29, 2008
In my preaching I sometimes tell the story of Rupert Brooke, the English poet, leaving Liverpool for America. Everyone else getting on the ship seemed to have family and friends to see them off. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
Lap of the gods Dec 26, 2007
Encountering a picturesque strip of water, Rupert Brooke would strip and swim naked, often with other literary figures such as Virginia Woolf and Rose Macaulay. "The process of stripping naked and plunging assumed for [Rupert] Brooke the form of a rite, a sexual and physical awakening and metamorphosis, a link with the local deities and naiads of the stream," Sprawson writes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Afternoon Tea in Bangkok, Thailand Nov 28, 2007
"Stands the church clock at ten to three, And is there honey still for tea ? These two lines from the Rupert Brooke poem, says a lot about the English custom of Afternoon Tea, traditionally served between the hours of 3 and 5 o clock in the afternoon. Thailand's food and drink is not all papaya salad and hot chilli soups. Recently, one very English custom has become very popular and Afternoon Tea in Bangkok is now a ritual among Bangkok's chic young, and not so young, people. Tea-rooms have... (Suite101.com)
The wild ones Nov 24, 2007
Rupert Brooke saw the play at least 12 times ... Rupert Brooke, daydreaming in Cambridge, turned Trinity Street into the mermaids' lagoon, and King's College Chapel into the treetop house. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Caustic postwar art, through German eyes Nov 6, 2007
In contrast, among British troops it was not painters but poets like Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen whose voices were heard. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune)
Thaliand's King Bhumibol admitted to hospital Oct 15, 2007
However, previously unseen letters from the First World War poet Rupert Brooke show that his true devotion was to an Edwardian actress whom he bombarded with marriage proposals. Post this story to. (Telegraph.co.uk)
'The Indian Clerk' explores complexities of thought and love Sep 22, 2007
Winnie the Pooh and D. H. Lawrence make cameo appearances in David Leavitt's new novel, "The Indian Clerk." So do Rupert Brooke, Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. But the fascinating figure at the novel's center is Srinivasa Ramanujan, the barely educated Indian clerk who wrote a 10-page letter about numbers to the eminent historian G. H. Hardy at Cambridge University, impressed Hardy enough to invite him to England, and became one of the century's greatest... (Boston Globe)
Passage from India for a math genius Sep 18, 2007
Leavitt also chronicles the risqu geniuses of Cambridge's famed "Apostles" club members included John Maynard Keyes, Lytton Strachey, Hardy, and Rupert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence's 1915 visit to the college. Depictions of incidents such as Bertrand Russell's sacking from Cambridge and subsequent imprisonment for his pacifist activities will interest mathematicians and historians alike. (Christian Science Monitor)
'Voices of the Great War' - Exhibit on display at Thomas Cooper Library Aug 30, 2007
Features of the "Voices of the Great War" exhibit include: Ancestral Voices -- the literary heritage of the war; Eager Voices -- Rupert Brooke, Charles Hamilton Sorley and others; Subaltern Voices -- Siegfreid Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves; Echoing Voices -- McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" and Alan Seeger's "Rendezvous"; Voices from the Ranks -- Henri Barbusse, Frederic Manning and others; Isaac Rosenberg -- from the "Joseph Cohen Collection;" Voices of Dissent -- Clifford Allen,... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Do fish have feelings too? Jun 21, 2007
Is it, as Rupert Brooke suggested in his poem Heaven, pondering "deep wisdom, dark or clear/Each secret fishy hope or fear". Or is its mind as blank as its eyes. (Guardian Unlimited)
Revealing Brooke letters fail to sell Jun 7, 2007
But, unswayed by emotion, no buyer was willing yesterday to pay a reserve price of about 120,000 for more than 80 letters written by the poet Rupert Brooke in the last two years of his life. The letters were all addressed to the actress Cathleen Nesbitt, with whom Brooke fell helplessly in love when he saw her play Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale in 1912. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
School stories Apr 5, 2007
In the back of a kitchen cupboard, with the coasters, is a framed portrait of Rupert Brooke. There is a cassette library in a burgundy leatherette travelling case. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
- Mary Riddell Apr 1, 2007
Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke have been replaced by Hollywood producers and media eager to chronicle hell's last horrors, especially those featuring a pretty blonde. The two main human narratives of the Iraq War centred on Jessica Lynch and Lynndie England, two young soldiers from West Virginia. (Guardian Unlimited)
Archers' naked shepherd stolen 'for scrap metal' Feb 9, 2007
The First World War poet Rupert Brooke would have been horrified. His poem, "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester", written in 1912, was a loving homage to his Cambridgeshire home, which he thought epitomised idyllic, rural England. (Independent)
n Onbekende Volk Jan 9, 2007
Vir hom kon hulle volledig as sinonieme gebruik word en dit het hom nie gepla om die grafte van Suid-Afrikaanse soldate te beskryf, in Rupert Brooke se beroemde frase, as forever England nie. Deur daarop aan te dring dat n Engelse man of vrou slegs n ware Suid-Afrikaner kan wees deur n suiwer Suid-Afrikaanse nasionalisme aan te hang, het Afrikaners laat blyk dat hulle nie begryp het dat patriotisme vir die Engelse belangriker was as nasionalisme en dat dit n tweeledige lojaliteit teenoor... (Ocnus.net)
LEONARD GETS HIS Jan 8, 2007
"Was Woolf, who seems very nice, ever more than minor?" the poet Rupert Brooke once asked. Victoria Glendinning, author of several critically acclaimed biographies and a past recipient of the Whitbread Award, is out to set the record straight. (Toronto Star)
A Meandering Jaunt From Bath to Cambridge, Along the Roads Less Traveled Jan 7, 2007
We sat in canvas chairs and read a leaflet about dreamy-eyed poet Rupert Brooke. He wrote about the orchard before his death in 1914: "Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?". (The Ledger)
Leonard Woolf's quiet complexity Dec 9, 2006
After meeting Leonard Woolf for the first time, in 1911, the poet Rupert Brooke asked of him, "Was Woolf, who seems very nice, ever more than minor?" Brutal though this seems, it may reflect the consensus over time: he remains a figure best known for those to whom he was attached his wife Virginia, of course, but also his close friends in the Bloomsbury set, including Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Clive Bell. As Victoria Glendinning makes clear in her comprehensive and eminently... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
- Roy Hattersley Oct 16, 2006
But you do not have to be Rupert Brooke to believe that there was something noble in their sacrifice. Nor do you need to be a pacifist to regret that the waste continues. (Guardian Unlimited)
Raghu Krishnan Jul 23, 2006
If I was a genuine versifier instead of a scribbling scribe doubling up as an arm-Che revolutionary, I would have emulated Rupert Brooke and immortalised the railway colony bungalow at Chakradharpur in the manner the poet did the old vicarage at Grantchester: Stands the Church clock at ten to three. And is there honey still for tea. (India Times)
Twenty thousand reasons to remember Jul 2, 2006
The poets came first: Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Isaac Rosenberg. Poetry was followed novels such as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, plays such as RC Sherriff's Journey's End and Robert Graves's celebrated memoir, Goodbye to All That. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Somme: a march to certain death Jul 1, 2006
He is to read Rupert Brooke s The Soldier, but yesterday he went in his Cadet Corps uniform to lay a wreath at La Boisselle for a great-great-uncle who was killed there at the age of 25. Birds sang in the rebuilt red-brick village as Harry mused on Private Thomas Seville, of the King s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, the ancestor whom he had only recently discovered and whose name is one of the 70,000 missing inscribed on the Thiepval Arch. (TimesOnline)
Honor and carnage Jul 1, 2006
"Now God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke shortly before his death. After the war, a myth grew up that callous or even cowardly officers drove men to their deaths. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
A kind of magic Jun 10, 2006
De la Mare opted instead for an alternative, more pastoral, movement, placing his work in the series of anthologies called The Georgians, along with Rupert Brooke, WH Davies and John Masefield ... In May of the same year, he discovered that he was one of three beneficiaries named by Rupert Brooke in his will. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Cambridge to introduce a visa system Mar 31, 2006
Cambridge people - who, as Rupert Brooke found, "rarely smile, being urban, squat and packed with guile" - believe they have found a typically cunning answer to the tourist problem - a visa system. In recent years tourism has been doing very well for Cambridge, if you are one of the shopkeepers sharing in the 18 millions annual revenue, or very badly if you happen to live in one of the colleges which generates it. (Guardian Unlimited)
