| Front | Rupert Brooke |
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| Back | 1887-1915 poet poems 1911 Lithuania, a one act play 1935 john Webster and Elizabethan drama 1916 his five war sonnets, published in new Numbers in 1915, included his famous 'the soldier' (if I should die, think only this of me), which drew from his Cambridge contemporary Charles Hamilton sorley the comment that 'he has clothed his attitude in fine words, but he has taken the sentimental attitude'. he died of blood-poisoninig en route to the Dardanelles in April 1915 Brooke good looks and early death ensured his transformation into a symbol of romantic patriotism his verse is characteristically Georgian, colloquial and nostalgic; well-known Anthology poems include the old vicarage, Grantchester 1912, clouded 1913, the dead 1914 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". 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 handsomest young man in England".[2][3] |
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