Rupert Alfred Chawner Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer) (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) 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 prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".

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Born the son of a schoolmaster in Rugby on August 3rd 1887, Rupert Chawner Brooke went on to become one of the most famous poets of the first world war, due largely to the success of his poem The Soldier that expressed the patriotic feelings of a generation at the time of his death. However, as this poem is only one of a handful of war poems that Brooke wrote, in relation to over a hundred life-time works that deal with subjects other than war, it is fair to say that Rupert Brooke has a lot more to offer as a poet than most people first assume.

• "Poets of the First World War", Westminster Abbey

BROOKE, RUPERT CHAWNER

• Rank: Sub-Lieutenant
• Date of Death: 23/04/1915
• Age: 27
• Regiment/Service:Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Hood Bn. R.N. Div.
• Grave Reference: Cemetery: SKYROS (ISOLATED GRAVE)
• Additional Information: Son of the late William Parker Brooke and of Mary Rutte Brooke, of 78 Dunchurch Rd, Rugby. Rupert Brooke was a published poet as early as 1911. Suffused with patriotism he was happy to die for his country in battle. He died, not in battle but of acute blood poisoning and was buried on the Greek Island of Skyros. Brooke left his royalties to his friends, namely Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson and Walter de la Mare, providing them with literary independence for the rest of their lives.

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In Fatal Glamour, Delany details Brooke’s travels, first in North America as a correspondent for the Westminster Gazette, and later to Tahiti and the South Seas. The following excerpt offers a glimpse into the poet’s time in Tahiti, a unique and less-documented period of peace and intimacy before his return to England and the onset of the First World War.

Excerpt: Fatal Glamour – The Life of Rupert Brooke