Letters from America: Travels in the USA and Canada (Modern Voices) - Softcover

Rupert Brooke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843914336 ISBN 13: 9781843914334

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Rupert Brooke's letters home from his year-long expedition around North America in 1913 paint a complex portrait of a gifted poet in his prime, and of the USA and Canada in the early 20th century.

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Review:

'British poets use to come to Canada and comment on it. Oscar Wilde made Niagara Falls a famous marital failure. Less known is that the English War poet, and classically-trained and classically-handsome, Rupert Brooke, spent a year in 'North America and the South Seas'.' --Eyewear blog

Synopsis:

In May 1913, Rupert Brooke embarked on a year-long expedition of North America, visiting the United States, Canada and finally the South Seas. He sent his impressions home in a series of letters, written for publication in the "Westminster Gazette", describing all his various experiences and reflections: the beauty of arriving, by boat, at night, in New York; the novelties of a baseball match; the awesome grandeur of the Niagara Falls and the Canadian wildernesses; and 'the full deliciousness of travelling in an American train by night through new scenery'. He is blunt in his judgements on society, business and cities, playful in his accounts of Anglo-American relations, and finally humbled by the vastness of the landscape in which he finds himself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1843914336
• ISBN 13: 9781843914334
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124