Comparing them in their prime, who was the handsomest young man in England: Rupert Brooke or Simon Le Bon?

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http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Brooke

http://www.mywandsworth.co.uk/images/celebs&gossip/simon1.jpg

― Rover, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And this wasn't posted by Kate? Something's wrong here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It was posted by me, Ned. I think you know who I'm talking about, Baby. Gashed DAT's, Space ... three dots, copious commas ... woof woof

― Rover, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

You're totally forgetting the cute bass playin' Taylor from Duran Duran. Simon was the wit indeed (did he ever find that TV sound? Please Please Tell Me Now.), but Taylor, with his bandana and open white jacket with no under shirt was easily the handsomest.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Based on those photos Brooke has a better face but neither looks super-super-special. Honestly some of the photos on the "what do you look like?" thread are as or more handsome.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

John Taylor isn't fair headed, so this possibly wouldn't work as well. But a fair point, Anthony.

Sundar -- which photos, exactly?

― Rover, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yound rosemary never fancied Rupert Brooke, though she did fancy various members of Duran Duran.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you sure that is Rupert Brooke and not Steve McManaman?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Hugh Grant?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate or Suzy hasnt posted yet? Call 911, they're in trouble!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the greatest thread ever. Simon is the overlord of all, shut up.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 5 December 2002 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh goody -- that means I can have Rupert all to myself!

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 5 December 2002 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Honestly some of the photos on the "what do you look like?" thread are as or more handsome.

Am I really better looking than that guy in the first picture?

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike Read was the umbilical cord linking these two, of course. Maybe he envied them, being so plug-ugly.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 5 December 2002 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Rupert Brooke looks like Steve McManaman.

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 5 December 2002 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

That first photo looks like Eric Stoltz.
And I used to be madly in love with Eric Stoltz.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

hm...less hugh, more rupert

http://swc2.hccs.cc.tx.us/rowhtml/rbrooke/RUPERBR.gif

rupert le plus bon!

― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Rupert. But I'd also like to throw the young Edward Thomas's hat into the ring:
http://www.envoy.dircon.co.uk/etf/images/pht_et_young.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony is the sole voice of sanity! It's all about John Taylor.

― Nicole Taylor (Nicole), Thursday, 5 December 2002 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~aguarino/duran/jtbass.gif

but then john ate to much sugar;-)

http://i.timeinc.net/ew/img/review/990924/sugar.jpg

― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

He's still cute.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Absolutely rosemary! Even slightly paunchy he's still much more attractive than nearly anybody on the music scene.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ba-HUH? is he with sarah michelle gellar in that piccie? whassup wiv that then??

the one of rupert brooke in profile above is GORGE tho.

― katie (katie), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.poemcees.com/graphics/10.jpg

NATURAL LAW: Angry DC Adonis. (Sorry ladies, he has a girlfriend.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ba-HUH? is he with sarah michelle gellar in that piccie? whassup wiv that then??

I think that's Rozanna Arquette.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks like Kylie Minogue with Big Macs stuffed in her cheeks.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(Did I say "cheeks"? I meant "bra".)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

john gets pauchy bigmac in sugar town

http://homepage.victorvox.de/spandau/mbilder/fotos1/sugar-cover.jpg

yes, two lumps please

http://www.clifford-bridge.co.uk/images/rupert.jpg

note: hair comparison john vs. rupert!

― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Those streaks are the bomb! They signify trashiness.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 5 December 2002 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Good Lord! Rival 80s popstarz in same film shockah! Not that that was deliberate or anything.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 5 December 2002 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Just to hark back to poets for a minute, I also have a slightly embarrassing THING for Yeats:
http://www.dreamloverinc.com/yeats.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the way he points at his unit, isn't it?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i have to say that Mr Perry is on SCORCHING form today!

― katie (katie), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Whuh, Ms W?
http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/stolz_e.jpg

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(heh heh chicks dig the unit)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha. I hope I don't develop an obsession with dead poets in the same vein as Kate's with dronerock ass.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

from the dead poets society

I'm ashamed of the ugliness of Dutch 19thc poets, so I skip to the Flemish ones of a few decades later...Paul van Ostaijen

http://users.pandora.be/louis.jacobs/imageDB6.JPG

― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Is he a Vulcan?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

He looks like Sean! Well, except the ears.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sultry:
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/poet-lmn.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Cuddly:
http://www.la-poesia.it/stranieri/inglesi/europei/thomas/dylan.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

arch brow, cubist ear

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jvdijk/ost_ltst.jpg

― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Arthur you cad, that does not look like me! Ok, yes it does.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Lovely HD:
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/image1.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/stephens_james.jpg

http://www.showbizireland.com/images/stars/hurt.jpg

The poet, James Stephens and John Hurt.

― Millwall Kiss, Thursday, 5 December 2002 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her

I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over,
But if to praise or blame you, cannot say.
For, who decries the loved, decries the lover;
Yet what man lauds the thing he’s thrown away?

Be you, in truth, this dull, slight, cloudy naught,
The more fool I, so great a fool to adore;
But if you’re that high goddess once I thought,
The more your godhead is, I lose the more.

Dear fool, pity the fool who thought you clever!
Dear wisdom, do not mock the fool that missed you!
Most fair,—the blind has lost your face for ever!
Most foul,—how could I see you while I kissed you?

So… the poor love of fools and blind I’ve proved you,
For, foul or lovely, ’twas a fool that loved you.

Rupert Brooke

― Rover Whitenails, Thursday, 5 December 2002 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

1.rimbaud

http://www.cronologia.it/storia/biografie/rimbaud.jpg

2.rambo

http://www.dicaprio.com/photos_and_movies/total_eclipse/images/toteclpf.jpg

btw, archel, who's she?

― dakatin, Thursday, 5 December 2002 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

HD? Divine and brilliant Imagist poet and lover/muse of Ezra Pound. More here.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 6 December 2002 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.dosswerks.com/scc/36green.jpg

Nicholas Politti

― J A, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

I'd like to throw myself into your ring.

― Seb Coe's Build, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 19 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Nothing to blush about. I bought the Arcadia album in December and I think it's rather good. Possibly better than Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and lots better than the Power Station.

― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

More Rupert, please!

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~english/WWI/posters/images/brooke.jpg

― She's In Parties (kate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I never bought the Power Station album. I had seven and the ragged tiger but gave it away to a friend. Weirdly when i got to see them live i really enjoyed 'Union of the snake' in spite of thinking it was duff as a nipper.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poetportraits/keats.gif vs. http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/yeats/yeats.jpg

FITE!!!

― She's In Parties (kate), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Keats, totally.

― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm that Green Gartside pic upthread *drools, falls off chair*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 February 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

Green Gartside still looks pretty good apart from the dodgy goatee.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Just for reference, leigh's pick of 80's pop pretty boys (I wanted to know)

Steve Jansen:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/87/150px-Jansen.jpg

Ian Burden:
http://www.league-online.com/louise11.jpg

And another one of JT, just because I don't need much of an excuse:
http://www.duranduranunseen.com/images/DuranDuran/DD026.jpg

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

You would have to pick a mullety pic of Ian Burden!

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

It was the only one I could find.

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a slightly better one (when he was evidently supplementing his income with David Sylvian lookilikee work).
http://www.league-online.com/crash.jpg

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

This is now the Official David Sylvian lookilikee thread.

\o/

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.firstfoot.com/News/images/borisyawns.JPG

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit...

http://www.billmundy.abelvisp.co.uk/latestpics/Boris%20-%20WITHFRAME.jpg

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Mr Burden at his cutest

http://www.multinet.no/~jonarne/Hjemmesia/Favorittartister/the_human_league/love_action.jpg

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

A tousled blonde mop is not enough, Kate. The jawline is all wrong. It's just wrong! (I'm fonder of Boris than I ought to be, but he's not in the same league I'm afraid!)

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

More dead poets for your delectation

http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/theater/productions/arcadia/byron.jpg

http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images/shelley1.jpg

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Byron's a bit obvious, but still HOTT. However Shelley? Feh, feh, I cannot get past how rubbitch his poetry is.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

If we can forgive John Taylor, we can forgive Shelley. But yea, Byron is hawter. And John Taylor is hawter. Look, there just aren't that many attractive dead poets, already.

Your turn.

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

My turn?

What about some brooding, pointy nosed Scots?

http://www.sfu.ca/~ccolliga/photogallery/Graphic%20Satire/Robert-Burns.jpg

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

At my uncle's funeral in Beckenham on Monday, the daft humanist vicar lady read one of his poems and called him Robbie. She also had the weirdest pronunciation of Corstorphine i've ever heard.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

The problem is, so many of my favourite poets (Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth) are SO not hott. I mean...

http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/images2/coleridge.jpg

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Though, if artistic imagination is allowed, ginger and pointy nosed DEAD hottness...

ihttp://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/images/chatterton.jpeg

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes. I'm digging the imaginary DEAD hottness. Oh yes.

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

What about 80s pop totty reading the work of dead poets?

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

...while dressed up in 18th Century costume? Oh yes! We have a winner!

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Have you got some? Hand it over...

Perhaps he's thinking about dead poet-ry

http://www.pure80spop.co.uk/Images/poppics/sylviannew.jpg

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

And what of modern day poets - are there any hunks among them?

― Crabby Adie, Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Archel?

But short answer, no:

http://www.play4me.com.au/coverscan/580000/575245.jpg

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Dead hunk poets:

Louis MacNeice:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/learning/getwritingni/images/wh_macneice_gallery/wh_macneice_gallery_pic04.jpg
Edward Thomas as posted above:
http://www.envoy.dircon.co.uk/etf/images/pht_et_young.jpg
Byron:
http://www.2020site.org/poetry/images/lord-byron.jpg
Sad he's in this category but Michael Donaghy:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-poetryquartets-255x315-donaghy.jpg

Living hunk poets:
Paul Farley is quite a cutie:
ihttp://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/images/paul_farley.jpg

Brendan Cleary has a Wildean glamour:
http://www.aldeburghpoetryfestival.org/images/prog2004/cleary.gif

A very young Hugo Williams - rowwrr!
ihttp://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/downloads/A66_lm1_n11_ap048_2_5.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Louis MacNeice is lovely, oh my lord!

Edward Thomas looks freakily like Gareth, though.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly MacNeice did not really improve with age.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, he was still fairly rowr around this time:

http://www.poetryconnection.net/images/Louis-Macneice.jpg
ihttp://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/lmacneice.jpg

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I guess so, a bit too serious and long-faced for my taste. Though at least not prey to the wrinkly genes that got Auden. Compare:
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-images/cal_photos/auden.jpg
with
http://www.geocities.com/johnparr@pacbell.net/auden.gif

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I like long faces...

But my god, yeah, Auden went fugly fast.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.picthisphotography.com/pages/entertain/images/DURAN_DURAN.jpg

The first crystal tears, fall as snowflakes on your body
First time in years, to drench you skin with lovers' rosy stain

There are two Hearts whose movements thrill,
In unison so closely sweet,
That Pulse to Pulse responsive still
They Both must heave, or cease to beat

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 16 February 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

ah, the debatable hottness of poets...
I have had a thing for the young Leonard Cohen (the poet, the writer, before he really became the singer/musician) ever since I happened to see a repeat broadcast of this on cbc years and years ago:
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-1587-10797/life_society/60s/
I melt. And I think the interviewer does too. He is CRAZY ATTRACTIVE.
http://static.flickr.com/21/100591539_4f02c07c4b_o.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

What do you guys think about Stephen Duffy (*nudge nudge*)?

http://www.thelilactime.com/photoalbum/albums/1990s/23_G.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/nick_andy.jpg

"I love him. I worship him. [..] I masturbate to Duran Duran videos." (Andy Warhol)

This is Stephen Duffy and Nick Rhodes together (i.e. The Devils):

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/devils.jpg

Nick AND Simon on a billboard advertising The Gap (I think they both look good -- too bad Simon is such an asshole, but hey, Nick has always been incredibly sweet and kind):

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/gap_nrslb.jpg

Oh, and I think you guys might be interested in seeing Duran in 1980:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/duran1980.jpg

They were performing at the Rum Runner here; the Rum Runner was their regular club by late 1979 and the club owners Paul and Michael Berrow were the band's first managers. Michael Berrow even remortgaged his house to finance the band's first UK tour. I believe this would have been the one where they opened for Hazel O'Connor, where they all slept in the same van they were traveling in.

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 17 February 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Was John Taylor still known as Nigel in those days?

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 17 February 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, he'd changed his name before they got Simon and Andy in, iirc. (So had Nick).

― Zora (Zora), Friday, 17 February 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I must confess to fancying Roger Taylor back in the day, don't really see it now.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 17 February 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

Smelly Lenny, eeewww, no. He was mates with my ex's mum and apparently never bathed and niffed something awful.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Also... BLIMEY!!! Is that Mr. Bates' natural haircolour?

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Simon was the sexiest, he was the most masculine. I'm not into the pretty boys, although I was a big fan of the band.

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I live for the pretty boys, but I concede that Charlie has an attractive swagger.

― Zora (Zora), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Uh honey, this is what Nick looked like when he and John met (back when both were still Nick Bates and Nigel Taylor):

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/deethelurker/nrpreteen.jpg

BTW, his unique smile? He totally got that from his father.

(God, it's a good thing I can fangeek out on you guys and not get any grief about that.)

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 18 February 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oops! That was in response to Kate's "Also... BLIMEY!!! Is that Mr. Bates' natural haircolour?" post.

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 18 February 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.greencine.com/images/article/finney-tom-jones.jpg

Young Albert Finney was suprisingly handsome.

― andy --, Saturday, 18 February 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

(He and John met at a record fair or yard sale, depending on the account you're hearing, where they both argued over the same David Bowie record. From the stories I've heard, Nick was ten and John was twelve when this happened.) (That's just in case you were wondering. If you didn't know this already. If you did or if you weren't curious -- I had to type out this information lest I go insane with "I should have typed this out"-style feelings and emotions.)

(xpost) Jesus, that's Albert Finney? Um, no, I'm not drooling. No, I just, um, forgot to wipe something from the corner of my mouth after eating dinner. Yeah, that's the ticket.

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 18 February 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Smelly Lenny, eeewww, no. He was mates with my ex's mum and apparently never bathed and niffed something awful." Who's Smelly Lenny? Roger Taylor?

― Sally Crudup, Saturday, 18 February 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

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