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John Webster & the Elizabethan Drama

Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915)

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1916. First Edition. Item #028011

xvi, 276 pages. This book was the dissertation written which won his fellowship to King's College, Cambridge in 1913, His poems include some written about the war just as Graves, Sassoon and Wilfred Owen did to become literary memorials to the cost of the Great War. He died while in military service in 1914 and was eulogized by Winston Churchill. This copy was published posthumously as a gift to the important writer of fantasy E.R. Eddison from C.H.G. dated x-mas 1916. The spare label from the publisher is still present at the end of page 276.

Price: $185.00