Rupert Brooke | |
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 Brooke, Photograph by Sherril Schell (1913) | |
| Born | Rupert Chawner Brooke 3 August 1887 Rugby, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | 23 April 1915 (aged 27) Skyros, Greece |
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| Occupation | Poet |
| Employer | Sidgwick & Jackson (publisher) |
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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] He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.
- ^ The date of Brooke's death and burial under the Julian calendar that applied in Greece at the time was 10 April. The Julian calendar was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.
- ^ "Friends and Apostles. The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905–1914". The New York Times. 1998. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
- ^ Jones, Nigel (30 September 1999). Rupert Brooke: Life, Death & Myth. London: Richard Cohen Books. pp. 110, 304.