Brooke (Rupert).- Henley (W. E.) Poems, thirteenth impression, signed

Brooke (Rupert).- Henley (W. E.) Poems, thirteenth impression, signed presentation inscription "Cathleen [Nesbitt] for a toothache from Rupert [Brooke]" to front free endpaper, photogravure frontispiece portrait, light browning to text, original cloth, spine faded, splitting and wear to spine, bumping and wear to corners, light rubbing and marking, 8vo, 1912. *** A presentation copy of Henley's poems, inscribed by Brooke to Cathleen Nesbitt in the year they met. Brooke first saw Nesbitt playing Perdita in Winter's Tale before being introduced to her at a part of a few days' later. The pair would become romantically involved and were engaged at the time of the poet's death in 1915. Brooke was an admirer of Henley's poetry from a young age, including him amongst Kipling, Yeats and Dowson in his paper "Some Aspects of Modern Poetry" which he read to the "Eranos" society at Rugby in July 1906.

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