1914, and Other Poems
Rupert Brooke
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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 (1 hr 1 min)
Chapters
1914 - I - Peace | 1:07 | Read by Jael Baldwin |
1914 - II - Safety | 1:05 | Read by Jael Baldwin |
1914 - III - The Dead | 0:58 | Read by Jael Baldwin |
1914 - IV - The Dead | 1:02 | Read by Jael Baldwin |
1914 - V - The Soldier | 1:00 | Read by Jael Baldwin |
The Treasure | 1:04 | Read by Lucy Perry |
Tiare Tahiti | 4:15 | Read by Lucy Perry |
Retrospect | 2:35 | Read by Lucy Perry |
The Great Lover | 5:27 | Read by Lucy Perry |
Heaven | 2:10 | Read by Lucy Perry |
Doubts | 1:09 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
There's Wisdom in Women | 0:57 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her | 1:20 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
A Memory | 1:15 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
One Day | 1:11 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
Waikiki | 1:21 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
Hauntings | 1:17 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
Sonnet | 1:16 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
Clouds | 1:16 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
Mutability | 1:23 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
The Busy Heart | 1:15 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
Love | 1:19 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
Unfortunate | 1:12 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
The Chilterns | 2:04 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
Home | 1:18 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
The Night Journey | 2:17 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
Song | 0:53 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
Beauty and Beauty | 0:59 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
The Way that Lovers Use | 0:51 | Read by Anusha Iyer |
Mary and Gabriel | 4:37 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Funeral of Youth - Threnody | 3:47 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester | 8:00 | Read by Ian King |