Rupert Brooke - His Life And Poetry
Rupert Brooke
Nov 2022 · CSA Word · Narrated by Douglas Hodge and Mike Read
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Douglas Hodge gives moving readings of over 40 of Rupert Brooke's poems in a well-researched account of his brief life written and narrated by Mike Read. Classic poems like 'The Soldier', 'The Fish', 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' and 'Dining-Room Tea' are combined with rare archive recordings of his close friends. Cathleen Nesbitt reads Brooke's poem 'Safety' and reminisces about the times she spent with him; Katherine Abercrombie, a member of his literary circle, remembers him in a 1956 recording and his cousin, Winifred Kinsman, recalls him in a touching interview.
We hear about the main women in his complicated love life, Laurence Olivier's older cousin, Noel, the actress Cathleen Nesbitt, Ka Cox who became pregnant by him and the Tahitian girl, Tataamata, who, it has just come to light, bore him a daughter.
We hear about the main women in his complicated love life, Laurence Olivier's older cousin, Noel, the actress Cathleen Nesbitt, Ka Cox who became pregnant by him and the Tahitian girl, Tataamata, who, it has just come to light, bore him a daughter.
Douglas Hodge gives moving readings of over 40 of Rupert Brooke's poems in a well-researched account of his brief life written and narrated by Mike Read. Classic poems like 'The Soldier', 'The Fish', 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' and 'Dining-Room Tea' are combined with rare archive recordings ...
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Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an English war poet who died at the tender age of 27 on his way to fight the Turks at Gallipoli. He is buried on the Aegean island of Skyros - so there is 'some corner of a foreign field that is forever England'.
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an English war poet who died at the tender age of 27 on his way to fight the Turks at Gallipoli. He is buried on the Aegean island of Skyros - so there is 'some corner of a foreign field that is forever England'.
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