The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
For the building, see Old Vicarage, Grantchester.
The Old Vicarage, Grantchester is a, mainly light, poem by the Georgian poet Rupert Brooke (1897-1915), written in 1912.
Culture and legacy
John Betjeman reuses eithe genoimen in his poem The Olympic Girl:[1]
Eithe genoimen … would I were,
(Forgive me shade of Rupert Brooke)
An object fit to claim her look,
Oh! Would I were a racket press'd,
With hard excitement to her breast!
(John Betjeman, first published in A Few Late Chrysanthemums, 1954)
An episode of the Croft and Perry situation comedy Dad's Army is titled Is There Honey Still for Tea?
See also
References
- ↑ John Betjeman (1954). A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
External links
- Memoir by Edward Marsh (Brooke's literary executor) including Brooke's letter to Geoffrey Fry, 1911, describing his feelings about being parted from England and Cambridge.