The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
by:
Rupert Brooke (author)
Ninety-four poems. Thirty six are sonnets. Most of the poems are brief, under two pages in length, and deal with love or ardor, death or aging, or various combinations of love/ardor and death/aging. Only three treat subjects one could call primarily medical or related to medicine: "Thoughts on...
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Ninety-four poems. Thirty six are sonnets. Most of the poems are brief, under two pages in length, and deal with love or ardor, death or aging, or various combinations of love/ardor and death/aging. Only three treat subjects one could call primarily medical or related to medicine: "Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body", "Paralysis" and "Channel Passage". However, the threads of death, aging, the limitations of one's physicality and loneliness - no strangers to medical humanities courses - are ubiquitous.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781532902116 (1532902115)
ASIN: 1532902115
Publish date: 2016-04-26
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2010-12-22)
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English
I live in Cambridge, England, and Rupert Brooke is our local poet. To be absolutely correct, he's Grantchester's local poet; Grantchester is a picturesque little village about a mile and a half up the river from Cambridge proper. We often walk there on Sunday, and have a cup of tea and a scone in th...