Matched With His Hour

Rupert Brooke, by Christopher Hassall. Harcourt, $8.75 AND DID YOU SEE SHELLEY PLAIN?

Well, frankly I did, if he lived again at King’s Cambridge in 1906-09, when we were both reading for Classical Honors. Any we gained were both in the Second Class, but Second Men point out how seldom Firsts are heard of again. Brooke of King’s and Lawrence of Arabia were the two Englishmen to make myth in the First War. England since has not been able to do without their glamor, whether the poems of one or the self-dramatized adventures of the other.

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Rupert Brooke, by Christopher Hassall. Harcourt, $8.75 AND DID YOU SEE SHELLEY PLAIN?

Well, frankly I did, if he lived again at King’s Cambridge in 1906-09, when we were both reading for Classical Honors. Any we gained were both in the Second Class, but Second Men point out how seldom Firsts are heard of again. Brooke of King’s and Lawrence of Arabia were the two Englishmen to make myth in the First War. England since has not been able to do without their glamor, whether the poems of one or the self-dramatized adventures of the other.