[lit-ideas] The Most Handsome Man in England IS a Poet
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:11:16 EST
Helm:
"They read their
poems out loud and are jealous of the good poets and the handsome ones whom
the girls are attracted to."
What is it with females that they look the harmonious form in a male? When
M. A. wrote this biography of the Great War poet Rupert Calvert Brooke, he
entitled it, after Yeats,
"The most handsome man in England"
-- Possibly he was, if you are into the rather unLatin unsexy English type
of the angel-face (I don't mean ALL ENGLISH TYPES are unsexy, so S. Ward do
not take offence). I'm saying that Yeats's would hardly be making a
universalistic claim a la Kant in his Philosophy of Judgement.
But then, if you compare it with Housman! I actually am an official member
of BOTH the Rupert Brooke Society (founded by M. Read -- M. Thatcher is
another member) *and* The Housman Society (founded by John Page in
Worcestershire), and must say that Housman was not your Byronic type of poet.
He loved to
translate Juvenal, I now see, and engage in the services of FRENCH male
prostitutes.
Brooke was heterosexual, and to his discredit he got an Indian (in Tahiti)
pregnant, and they say there are Brook-a-likes on that island till today.
My other favourite English poets -- I don't read Chilean -- are:
AUDEN, Wystan Hugh
born York
BEDDOES
If there were dreams to sell
HOUSMAN, A. E.
SHAKESPEARE
The sonnets set to music by H. Parry
and most of the poems quoted by Timothy D'Arch-Smith in his book on
turn-of-the-century poetry.
While heterosexual, Brooke had a big gay following and he liked the
ambiguity of all, and called it 'pagan' (There's a book I must find on his life
called "The neo-pagans").
Cheers,
JL
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