Rupert Brooke And the Intellectual Imagination a Lecture
Rupert Brooke And the Intellectual Imagination a Lecture
Walter J De La Mare
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Truth at all costs: let beauty take carey of itself. So he came to write and to defend poems that in Mr. Marsh's witty phrase one finds it dis- quieting to read at meals. A child, a visionary, lives in eternity; a man in time, a boy — sheer youthful- ness — in the moment. It is the moments that flower for Brooke. What is his poem " Dining-room Tea- 12 1 8 Rupert Brooke and the but the lovely cage of an instant when in ecstasy time and the world stood still? For truth's sake he has no fear of co...ntradictions. ^The mood changes, the problem, even the certainty shows itself under different aspects; he will be faith- ful to each in turn. Obviously he rather enjoyed shocking the stagnant and satisfied, and bating the thin-blooded philosophers, enjoyed indeed shocking and bating himself, but he also delighted, as in a pure intellectual exercise, in looking, as we say, all round a thing. If, unlike Methuselah, he did not live long enough to see life whole, he at least con- fronted it with a remarkably steady and disconcert- ing stare.
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