Summer days
Jul. 15th, 2024 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sashacat1So, summer reading was Christopher hassall's biography of Rupert Brooke. It is a tome.
I love Brooke's poems. Just as I like Keats.
But Hassalls is boring. Good God, he is. And he omits all the potentially 'interesting' bits. Like Brooke may have had a child... this was NOT MENTIONED.
I did like the links to the Bloomsbury group. The relationships are fascinating and you just know STUFF HAPPENED, not that Hassalls tells you that. He met Sassoon too.
And he did actually go to war in Belgium. The Fall of Antwerp.
I came away with a vision of one screwed up human being. With worse insecurity than me and a longing to be that bohemian that he could allow himself to be.
I love Brooke's poems. Just as I like Keats.
But Hassalls is boring. Good God, he is. And he omits all the potentially 'interesting' bits. Like Brooke may have had a child... this was NOT MENTIONED.
I did like the links to the Bloomsbury group. The relationships are fascinating and you just know STUFF HAPPENED, not that Hassalls tells you that. He met Sassoon too.
And he did actually go to war in Belgium. The Fall of Antwerp.
I came away with a vision of one screwed up human being. With worse insecurity than me and a longing to be that bohemian that he could allow himself to be.
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Date: 2024-07-16 01:47 am (UTC)