Rupert Brooke: References & Edit History

John Lehmann, The Strange Destiny of Rupert Brooke (also published as Rupert Brooke: His Life and His Legend, 1980); and William E. Laskowski, Rupert Brooke (1994), cover his life and work. Paul Delany, The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle (1987), examines Brooke’s cultural context. Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), The Letters of Rupert Brooke (1968), compiles the poet’s correspondence. K. Hale (ed.), Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905–1914 (1998), provides an exceptionally frank account of Brooke’s homosexual private life as a young man. Adrian Caesar, Taking It Like a Man: Suffering, Sexuality, and the War Poets (1993), links poetic expression to sexual identity in the poetry of World War I.