Letters from America
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Letters from America
Rupert Brooke, english poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War (1887-1915).
This ebook presents «Letters from America», from Rupert Brooke. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- RUPERT BROOKE
-03- LETTERS FROM AMERICA
-04- ARRIVAL
-05- NEW YORK
-06- NEW YORK CONTINUED
-07- BOSTON AND HARVARD
-08- MONTREAL AND OTTAWA
-09- QUEBEC AND THE SAGUENAY
-10- ONTARIO
-11- NIAGARA FALLS
-12- TO WINNIPEG
-13- OUTSIDE
-14- THE PRAIRIES
-15- THE INDIANS
-16- THE ROCKIES
-17- SOME NIGGERS
-18- AN UNUSUAL YOUNG MAN
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In these short letters written mostly for the Westminster Gazette, the 26-year-old British poet jotted down his impressions of a year-long trip to the United States, Canada and the South Pacific. With an adulatory preface by Henry James, they were issued in book form in London in 1916, after Brooke's death, and have never before been published hereand with reason. The pieces consist mainly of overwritten descriptions of scenery and superficial generalities about New York and Boston, Canada's larger cities, Niagara Falls, the Canadian Prairies and Rockies, which any talented young writer might have put down to impress faraway friends. One letter, entitled "Some Niggers,'' praises the German colonizers of Samoa. Certainly not Brooke's finest writing.
