The Neo-pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition Macmillan 1987. Royal 8vo. 256pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription to endpaper, no furhter marks of any kind. In very good bright gilt lettered blue cloth, together with unclipped original portrait pictorail dustwrapper. Brooke was in the centre of asmall group of beautiful talented youth on the fringes of Bloomsbury, dubbed ' the Neo-Pagans' by Virginia Woolf. W.b. Yeats called him 'the most handome man in England', and the image of him sacrificing himself for England was potent and the stuff of instant martyrdom. 'The real story is far from golden but more worth the telling." .