Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 20 September 20, 1938
1914-1938 — Be Warned by Rupert Brooke
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.