Sounded ID: 9781518999345
ISBN: 9781518999345
Publication Date: March 27, 2020
Publisher: Monkeynut Audiobook
Language: English
Author Name: Mike Read
Narrator Name: Mike Read
Forever England explores Rupert Brooke’s life, from schooldays to the Great War, and in so doing builds a remarkable picture of a long-lost England and a generation’s descent into war. Brooke’s poems emerge dramatically from a tangled web of love, friendship, mental illness and politics. He reveals also the existence of a previously unrecorded love child from a South Seas romance.
The WW1 legend was largely brought about by the words of one of his sonnets: ‘If I should die, think only this of me/That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.’ The poem, and all that ...
Forever England explores Rupert Brooke’s life, from schooldays to the Great War, and in so doing builds a remarkable picture of a long-lost England and a generation’s descent into war. Brooke’s poems emerge dramatically from a tangled web of love, friendship, mental illness and politics. He reveals also the existence of a previously unrecorded love child from a South Seas romance.
The WW1 legend was largely brought about by the words of one of his sonnets: ‘If I should die, think only this of me/That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.’ The poem, and all that it represented, became the focal point of a nation’s grief for its lost youth.
Asked why Brooke was special, his Commander-in-Chief answered, "Is it because he was a hero? There were thousands? Is it because he looked a hero? There were a few. Is it because he had genius? There were others. But Rupert Brooke held all these three gifts of the gods in his hands.
Forever England is written and narrated by Mike Read.
# | Title | Duration |
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1. | Forever England Introduction |
0 mins 29 secs |
2. | Forever England Dedication |
0 mins 30 secs |
3. | Forever England Preface |
5 mins 47 secs |
4. | Forever England Chapter 1 |
36 mins 42 secs |
5. | Forever England Chapter 2 |
29 mins 26 secs |
6. | Forever England Chapter 3 |
37 mins 17 secs |
7. | Forever England Chapter 4 |
23 mins 15 secs |
8. | Forever England Chapter 5 |
36 mins 16 secs |
9. | Forever England Chapter 6 |
46 mins 17 secs |
10. | Forever England Chapter 7 |
37 mins 59 secs |
11. | Forever England Chapter 8 |
31 mins 30 secs |
12. | Forever England Chapter 9 |
30 mins 15 secs |
13. | Forever England Chapter 10 |
36 mins 50 secs |
14. | Forever England Chapter 11 |
22 mins 30 secs |
15. | Forever England Chapter 12 |
18 mins 10 secs |
16. | Forever England Chapter 13 |
32 mins 12 secs |
17. | Forever England Chapter 14 |
27 mins 50 secs |
18. | Forever England Chapter 15 |
15 mins 45 secs |
19. | Forever England Chapter 16 |
1 hr 06 mins |
20. | Forever England Chapter 17 |
15 mins 57 secs |
21. | Forever England Outro |
0 mins 33 secs |
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