In 1913 Rupert Brooke sailed to New York and wrote a series of travel letters as he went on to Boston and Harvard, Montreal and Ottawa, Quebec and the Saguenay, Ontario, the prairies and the Rockies. Henry James’s long preface, written after Brooke’s death in 1915, reflects on the poet’s short life and genius.
Witty, observant prose from the poet of The Soldier, with one of Henry James’s last essays. Download the free EPUB.