Forever England (36 page)
Authors: Mike Read
Ka and Rupert at Clifford Bridge.
Brooke in April 1913, photographed by Sherril Schell at his flat in St Georges Square, Pimlico, London. Schell felt Brooke wore a ‘spasmodic wistful expression’.
Brooke with fellow poet Duncan Campbell Scott in Ottawa.
Sub-Lieutenant Brooke at Blandford Camp.
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Grantully Castle.
Rupert’s grave on Skyros.
The plaque in Rugby School chapel.
First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Mainstream Publishing Company Ltd
This edition published in Great Britain in 2015 by
Biteback Publishing Ltd
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King’s College Library, Cambridge, for permission to reproduce all illustrations; Rugby School for permission to reproduce ‘Sonnet to Rupert Brooke’ by John Gillespie Magee; the Trustees of the Gibson Estate for permission to reproduce from the work of Wilfred Gibson; the
Times Literary Supplement
for permission to quote from a review of 8 August 1918; the Estate of George Sassoon for permission to reproduce extracts from the works of Siegfried Sassoon; A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of The Executors of the Estate of David Garnett for permission to reproduce extracts from
The Golden Echo
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ISBN 978–1–84954–866–3
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