Perishing things and strange ghosts: Rupert Brooke's last poem.

From: Queen's Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1996| Author: Kenneth Sherman | Copyright information

AFTER the war, the simple white cross that marked Brooke's grave was replaced with a hideous bronze statue, modelled after the Apollo Belvedere. The memorial was English society's way of securing Brooke within the myth it had created for him. As Philip Larkin rightly observed, "People had ideas about Brooke." But this was partly Brooke's own doing, and the transformation of his grave to kitsch speaks not about Brooke's artistry, but about his aspirations and his relationship to the...

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