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Feb 16, 2016 · Here’s our pick of Brooke’s five best poems, which we think would provide a fine introduction to his work as a whole. Follow the title of each poem to read the poem. We’ve arranged these in ascending order, ending with what we think is Brooke’s finest poem of all. 1. ‘ The Great Lover ‘.
Apr 23, 2015 · Short stories and poems, plus author interviews, profiles, and tales from the world of literature. Recent biographical work on the First World War poet Rupert Brooke has been dismantling the ...
Feb 22, 2018 · Secret memoir uncovers the real life and loves of doomed war poet Rupert Brooke. On the centenary of the his death, a cache of love letters brings the elusive golden boy of Edwardian England...
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.
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.
Read a brief biography about the life of Rupert Brooke. Discover how the WW1 soldier explored his passion for poetry before his tragic death.
The Soldier. By Rupert Brooke. 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 be. In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air,
