UNWRITTEN POETRY.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 24, 27 July 1929, Page 18

UNWRITTEN POETRY.

Tho Egyptian branch of La Lanterne Sourde is collecting for a memorial to Rupert Brooke. Tho unwritten poetry of Rupert Brooke is one of the greatest arguments against war that can over bo found. He died long before his pen had gleaned his toemiug brain, like Keats; but Keats died because he had a fatal disease, and there was no need for Rupert Brooke to die. He died of the disease of mankind, the disease oi' human folly. He was wasted by war, and the world was robbed of the ripened grain of his genius. At the Island of Scyros, whotho the poet died on his way to Gallipoli, La Lauterue Sourde means to erect a monument by a Greek sculptor. Tho society is also arranging' another sort of memorial, a volume called International Homage to Rupert Brooke. French and Arabic versions of his poems are to be published. And what is La Lantorno Sourde? The title may be translated as Dark Lantern, and it was given to a group of literary and artistic people formed in Brussels in 1921. /