BROOKE, Rupert.

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1914 and Other Poems. First edition, association copy, from the library of Augustus Theodore Bartholomew (1882-1933), with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper, dated just two days after publication: "A. T. Bartholomew, Cambridge, 18 June 1915".Batholomew, a Cambridge University librarian and bibliographer, was closely associated with Brooke and his poetic and homosexual circles in Cambridge. During the First World War, he was responsible for printing several of Siegfried Sassoon's poems in Cambridge Magazine pamphlets, and oversaw the printing of Sassoon's limited edition Picture Show. Bartholomew eulogized Brooke's death in his diary as "a loss to English poetry".Brooke's collection includes his celebrated poem "The Soldier" ("If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England").

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