"The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" by Rupert Brooke (poetry)

[ianskidmore]

i rexckon in somecorner of a fotreign field qualifies him as a war poet, if not terribly war like. Try Keith Saunders

[baldF]

"Brooke wrote what are now considered as war poems but he died of an infection before the First World War".

Well - NO

Brooke was a War Poet ... World War I went from 1914 - 1918... the rest of the world doesn't necessarily operate according to American time (as nice as the Americans may be).

Brooke was in the Royal Navy - he saw action at Antwerp in 1914 ... he died of a blood poisoning infection in 1915 in the Greek Isles

[SpokenVerse]

@baldF Well, yes, but the rest of the sentence was "the poems express his feelings not his experiences." I could have expressed it better, I agree. He didn't write any significant poetry about his personal experience of war and can't be placed in the same category as Sassoon, Owen, etc.

[conscheme]

Hi, your recordings are wonderful. I just wanted to say, "eithe genoimin" is Ancient Greek for 'Would I were', which is how the line continues in English.

[stevewestenra]

Haslingfield, Babraham and Madingley are not pronounced correctly.

Locals Pronounce them: Hayslingfield; Madingley (not Madeingly); and Babebraham or Babebrum.

[SpokenVerse]

Thank you for the information. I hope it didn't spoil the rest of the poem for you.