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Alphabetical List of Selected Poems

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One – The Life of Rupert Brooke

One: The Rugby Years

Two: Cambridge, the Carbonari and Poetry

Three: Hugh Dalton, and Rupert reaches Twenty-One

Four: The Emerging Poet

Five: To Grantchester and The Old Vicarage

Six: Back to Cambridge for the final Year

Seven: Just now the lilac is in bloom . . .

Eight: Georgian Poetry and Travels to Europe

Nine: To America and Canada

Ten: Westward to the South Seas

Eleven: Back to ‘imprisoning civilization’

Twelve: Home to England and the War

Thirteen: Royal Naval Division at Antwerp

Fourteen: If I should die . . .

Part Two – Selected Poems