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1914, and Other Poems

by Rupert BROOKE (1887 - 1915)

1914 - I - Peace

This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote during the war were published posthumously and are the poems for which he is best-known today. This volume also contains poems written during a journey around the Pacific, and a number of miscellaneous poems. - Summary by Carolin

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Listen next episodes of 1914, and Other Poems:
1914 - II - Safety , 1914 - III - The Dead , 1914 - IV - The Dead , 1914 - V - The Soldier , A Memory , Beauty and Beauty , Clouds , Doubts , Hauntings , He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her , Heaven , Home , Love , Mary and Gabriel , Mutability , One Day , Retrospect , Song , Sonnet , The Busy Heart , The Chilterns , The Funeral of Youth - Threnody , The Great Lover , The Night Journey , The Old Vicarage, Grantchester , The Treasure , The Way that Lovers Use , There's Wisdom in Women , Tiare Tahiti , Unfortunate , Waikiki