Extremely rare 1914 and Other Poems by Rupert Brooke (1915)

Inscription to Cecilia June 16th

First edition of Brooke’s first book of poems which brought him immediate fame, second Impression (1915). Octavo, original cloth with paper spine label. In near fine condition.

Brooke's first book of poems was an immediate success upon publication, establishing his reputation as one of the most popular and celebrated WWI poets. Brooke entered Cambridge in 1906 where he became a visible figure in English intellectual circles, becoming acquainted with Virginia Woolf, writer Lytton Strachey, economist John Maynard Keynes, and William Butler Yeats who described him as "the handsomest young man in England." Between his graduation from Cambridge in 1909 and the start of World War I in 1914, he became associated with the Georgian poets; whose verse reflected an idealistic preoccupation with rural, youthful motifs. Brooke enlisted at the outbreak of war in August 1914. He came to public attention as a war poet early the following year, when The Times Literar