"I began Rupert Brooke's poems and the memoir at the beginning. I was extraordinarily impressed, particularly by the letters – they, I think, bring out more than anything the situation I have tried to show in my editorial, that the beauty of living has gone out of the youngest generation... I felt very envious reading, particularly the parts about Rugby and friendship. I do honestly think that that is something that went out of the world in 1914, at least for one generation."
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Evelyn Waugh, diary entry (22 November 1921), quoted in The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (1976), p. 147
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Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet.
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