Volume 28, Number 14 · September 24, 1981
Patriot
By Noel Annan
The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke
by John Lehmann
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 178 pp., $12.95
Rupert Brooke is like a skiff on the sea of English poetry, falling farther and farther astern until he becomes a mere speck tossing on the waves, and it looks as though he will fade from sight. Yet, like Chatterton or Cory, long after being passed by, he still remains visible. Everything has conspired to sink him. The most publicized of the Georgian poets, he with his poetic style was swamped by the wash of the revolution in prosody. Ten years after he was dead the clever undergraduates were no longer reading him; they had surrendered their minds to Eliot.
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