RUPERT BROOKE

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was educated at Rugby and King's College, Cambridge. His first book of verse, Poems, was published in 1911. When World War I broke out, he joined the Royal Naval Division and died on the way to Gallipoli in 1915. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) began writing poetry as a teenager and became an English teacher in France. During World War I he fought on the Somme, was awarded the Military Cross and was killed just before the war ended.

No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day. The reputation of Rupert Brooke has survived many changes of literary fashion since his death in the Aegean in 1915, aged twenty-eight. This standard edition of his poems was edited and arranged by his great friend Geoffrey Keynes. It includes a considerable number of early pieces, among them two of his longest poems, 'The Pyramids' and 'The Bastille'.

Rupert Brooke falleció con 27 años por septicemia producida por la picadura de un insecto en un buque francés, en 1915, camino de Gallipoli. Su poesía, que se recoge completa en edición bilingüe y en orden cronológico inverso, transita desde lo georgiano (grupo de Dymock) a un realismo pacifista e idealista del final. Incluye la famosa serie de cinco poemas recogida bajo el título 'El Soldado'. Otro poema famoso es 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'. Es uno de los 16 'war poets', generación que participó en la I Guerra Mundial y que son objeto de culto en Inglaterra.

Selecció de poemes de Rupert Brooke, un dels mites literaris del segle XX, que multiplicarà delícies i reflexions als amants de la poesia. Escrits en anglè