Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, wh
Brooke c. 1913
Brooke's birthplace in Rugby in 2017
Childhood photograph of Rupert Brooke (right) with his younger brother Alfred Brooke (left) and dog Trim (1898)
Rupert Brooke as an officer in 1914
The Dead (poem)
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The Dead is the name of two poems by the English poet Rupert Brooke, sonnets III and IV of the "1914" section of his posthumous collection 1914 and Other Poems.
Rupert Brooke
…Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the…
"Honour has come back, as a king, to earth," illustration by Harry Clarke in The Year's at the Spring, 1920.