Smacks of sensationalism.

And he can't even quote properly from 'Dulce et Decorum Est'. He quotes: 'Gas! Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,..'

The lines in fact are 'Gas! Gas!  Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,..' in both manuscript and print.

Gosh, do you mean to say that they had gay people in those days as well? It it always looks so nice in old photographs.

Re W Owen: the fact is until recent eras, people did not know how to respond to paedos (except ghetto style i.e. with violence, which those outside the working classes were usually able to avoid), so such behaviour was often swept under the carpet. It would be good to see these allegations disproved, but if they were true it is believable that his tendencies were never publicised or resulted in prosecution. I assume other historians will look at the evidence and comment on whether or not it stands up.

It's his use of half-rhyme wot done it!

I don't know, like all war poets he was flawed by his subject.

Last edited by Dudley Clarke (2014-11-13 16:02:05)

Can art and artist be separated?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30245245

To show how close the past is, Rupert Brooke was a friend of a friend of mine--the actor Reginald Pole. He had known Brooke at Cambridge. Of course, I was very young and Pole was quite old at the time we knew each other.

I recall my dad saying, "The only true history is that of the person who lived it."