1914-1938

Be Warned by Rupert Brooke

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In 1913 and 1914 Rupert Brooke declared :

I want to walk 1,000 miles, and write 1,000 plays, and sing 1,000 poems, and drink 1,000 pots of beer, and kiss 1,000 girls, and—oh, a million things.

May, 1913

All I want is life in a cottage, and leisure to write supreme poems and plays.

March, 1914

I want to live in a hut by a river and pretend I'm Polynesian.

April, 1914

I'm so uneasy—sub-consciously. All the vague perils of the time—the world seems so dark—and I'm vaguely frightened.

July, 1914

But there's a ghastly sort of apathy over half the country and I really think large numbers of male people don't want to die—which is odd. I've been praying for a German air raid.

Xmas, 1914

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Are you Wiser than Rupert Brooke?

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Winston Churchill Delivered a Funeral Oration over Brooke in the Times." The old Fury is Still Under Age for a Funeral Oration About you.