Record Number: 32065
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'What I've thought of most to-day, and it has been running in my mind all the time, for we had to learn it by heart, is Rupert Brooke's The Soldier. I cannot feel like that. I do not want my body to rot away under this field, with its yellow earth and thin, pale grass. Perhaps Brooke could feel like that because he'd had something in this world. He'd been to Berlin, and he'd had lovely warm afternoons in Cambridgeshire ... and he's had time to enjoy things. I have never had time to think. I have had nothing, nothing ... Rupert Brooke had longer than I've had to see things and enjoy them. He was ten years older than I am now.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1915 and Jul 1917
Country:Ireland
Timen/a
Place:city
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(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Apr 1900
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Student
Religion:Roman Catholic
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'The Soldier'
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn 'Poems of To-day: An Anthology'
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Source Information:
Record ID:32065
Source:R. H. Kiernan
Editor:n/a
Title:Little Brother Goes Soldiering
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1930
Vol:n/a
Page:123-24
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
R. H. Kiernan, Little Brother Goes Soldiering, (London, 1930), p. 123-24, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=32065, accessed: 16 February 2025
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