1914, and Other Poems
Chapter 1 of 32 1914 - I - Peace
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- Running time
- 1 h 2 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Anusha Iyer, Ian King, Jael Baldwin, Larry Wilson, Lucy Perry, Peter Yearsley
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About this recording
This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems. - Summary by Carolin