Rupert Brooke — Democracy and the Arts

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1946. Cloth. A beautiful edition of this essay by celebrated and tragic war poet, Rupert Brooke. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an English poet remembered for his war poetry. He was a friend amongst the Bloomsbury group of writers, and was a member of the literary groups the Georgian Poets and the Dymock poets, which included Robert Frost and Edward Thomas as members. His sonnets written during the First World War remain some of the most important examples of Western war poetry, with 'The Soldier' and 'The Dead' being his most well known verses. He tragically perished from sepsis from a mosquito bite whilst sailing with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the First World War at the age of twenty-seven.With the bookplate of the Society of Writers to his Majesty's Signet, a private society of Scottish solicitors dating to 1594.With a frontispiece portrait of the author. In a full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .