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Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 [1]) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier".
Handsome, charming, and talented, Brooke was a national hero even before his death in 1915 at the age of 27. His poetry, with its unabashed patriotism and graceful lyricism, was revered in a country that was yet to feel the devastating effects of two world wars.
Rupert Brooke (born Aug. 3, 1887, Rugby, Warwickshire, Eng.—died April 23, 1915, Skyros, Greece) was an English poet, a wellborn, gifted, handsome youth whose early death in World War I contributed to his idealized image in the interwar period. His best-known work is the sonnet sequence 1914.
Apr 23, 2015 · Recent biographical work on the First World War poet Rupert Brooke has been dismantling the political and biographical myths that surround him.
Feb 16, 2016 · Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is often known as a war poet, though he died early on during the conflict and didn’t live to see the sort of combat and conditions that later poets of the First World War, such as Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg, experienced and wrote so powerfully about.
Read a brief biography about the life of Rupert Brooke. Discover how the WW1 soldier explored his passion for poetry before his tragic death.
Jul 2, 2019 · Rupert Brooke was a poet, academic, campaigner, and aesthete who died serving in World War One, but not before his verse and literary friends established him as one of the leading poet-soldiers in British history.
