“the history of literature, so full of Fate's exquisite ironies, has nothing more poignantly ironic, and nothing at the same time more beautifully appropriate, than the publication of Rupert Brooke's noble sonnet-sequence, '1914', a few swift weeks before the death they had imagined, and had already made lovely. Each one of these five sonnets faces, in a quiet exultation, the thought of death, of death for England; and understands, as seldom even English poetry has understood, the unspeakable beauty of the thought” WarDeathPoetryBeautyFateSacrificeEnglandIronyPatriotismRupert Brooke Book:Poems of Rupert Brooke, 1905-1911, and 1914 Source: Poems of Rupert Brooke, 1905-1911, and 1914