The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir/Appendix

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I HAVE thought best to keep the two published volumes intact, observing the reversed chronological order which the author followed in his first book.

The Appendix contains : (1) the only two coherent fragments found in the notebook which he used in the last month of his life (see Memoir); a little song, written, I think, on his travels; and a poem, dating probably from 1912, which for some reason he left unrevised, but which I print for the sake of the characteristic image in the first stanza: (2) a few 'lighter' poems which I dare say he would have printed on their merits if he had published a volume in which they would not have been out of key. Two of these, the "Letter to a Live Poet" and "The Little Dog's Day," were written for Westminster Gazette competitions, in which they won prizes. E. M.