Rupert Brooke
an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier".
Rupert Brooke | The Poetry Foundation
Few writers have provoked as much excessive praise and scornful condemnation as English poet Rupert Brooke. Handsome, charming, and talented, Brooke was a ...
The True Story of Rupert Brooke | The New Yorker
Recent biographical work on the First World War poet Rupert Brooke has been dismantling the political and biographical myths that surround ...
Rupert Brooke | Poet, War Poet, WWI Poet | Britannica
Rupert Brooke was an English poet, a wellborn, gifted, handsome youth whose early death in World War I contributed to his idealized image in the interwar ...
About Rupert Brooke | Academy of American Poets
Rupert Brooke - English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School's housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics ...
The Rupert Brooke Society celebrates the life and work of the English poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915).
Brooke was an English poet whose neo-Romantic poems and premature death in World War One contributed to his fame and idealised image.
Rupert Brooke - Emory English Department
Brooke is remembered as a "war poet" who inspired patriotism in the early months of the Great War.
Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915) - The War Poets Association
Brooke volunteered for active service at the outbreak of war in August 1914 and, with the help of Marsh and Churchill, gained a commission in the Royal Naval ...
Rupert Brooke Poems - My poetic side
5 patriotic sonnets about warfare. The first sonnet 'I Peace' details the young man's call to war, and how he is released from daily grievances like illness ...
The Best Rupert Brooke Poems Everyone Should Read
Here's our pick of Brooke's five best poems, which we think would provide a fine introduction to his work as a whole.
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) · First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Brooke was an energetic aesthete skilled at playful, irreverent satire ("Heaven") and not afraid to shock his audience with graphic descriptions.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE - Project Gutenberg
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke with an introduction by George Edward Woodberry and a biographical note by Margaret Lavington
Rupert Brooke's Obituary in The Times | Anthem for Doomed Youth
He expected to die: he was willing to die for the dear England whose beauty and majesty he knew: and he advanced towards the brink in perfect serenity, with ...
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(1887–1915). The English poet Rupert Brooke was a gifted writer whose early death in World War I contributed to his idealized image in the interwar period.
The Soldier | The Poetry Foundation
The Soldier. By Rupert Brooke. Share. If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England. There shall ...
A man of great physical beauty by reputation, Rupert Brooke was born in Rugby, Warwickshire where he attended the local school.
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke - Poems | Academy of American Poets
A soldier during World War I, Brooke died of dysentery and blood poisoning aboard a troop ship. Winston Churchill used the occasion of Brooke's death.
Rupert Brooke - Person - National Portrait Gallery
Poet Cambridge-educated, Brooke was one of the early, idealising poets of the First World War. His poem 'The Soldier' ('If I should die think only this of ...
The Project Gutenberg eBook of 1914 and Other Poems, by Rupert ...
(Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd.) First edition, 1911. Reprinted 1913. May 1915 (twice). RUPERT BROOKE.