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Early life. Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, [4] [5] and named after a great-grandfather on his mother's side, Rupert Chawner (1750–1836), a distinguished doctor descended from the regicide Thomas Chaloner [6] (the middle name has however sometimes been erroneously given as "Chaucer"). [7]
Rupert Chawner Brooke, né le 3 août 1887 et mort le 23 avril 1915, est un poète anglais connu tant pour ses poèmes idéalistes anti-guerre, les War Sonnets écrits pendant la Première Guerre mondiale (notamment The Soldier), que pour les poèmes qu'il a écrits en temps de paix, particulièrement The Old Vicarage, Grantchester [1] et The ...
Rupert Chawner Brooke English war poet 3 August 1887 (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) Few writers have provoked as much excessive praise and scornful condemnation as English poet Rupert Brooke. Handsome, charming, and talented, Brooke was a national hero even before his death in 1915 at the age of 27.
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.
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. His poems are staples of military services, but the work has been accused of glorifying war.
Jan 19, 1999 · Poète, prosateur et critique anglais, Rupert Brooke n'a pas eu le temps de développer ses talents ni de définir une personnalité qui comportait autre chose que le charme et que l'auréole d'une mort précoce, sans même l'illusion d'un sacrifice glorieux, à bord d'un bateau-hôpital, en mer Égée.
Few writers have provoked as much excessive praise and scornful condemnation as English poet Rupert Brooke. 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,...
Read a brief biography about the life of Rupert Brooke. Discover how the WW1 soldier explored his passion for poetry before his tragic death.
English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905.
