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1914, and Other Poems

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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