Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915) was a English poet, symbol of the World War I "lost generation".

Short Biography:

His poems, the best-known being the five war sonnets (including "Grantchester" and "The Great Lover"), were published posthumously.

Born in Rugby, where he was educated, Brooke travelled abroad after a nervous breakdown in 1911, but in 1913 won a fellowship at King's College, Cambridge.

Later that year he toured America (Letters from America in 1916), New Zealand, the South Seas, and in 1914 became an officer in the Royal Naval Division.

After fighting at Antwerp, he sailed for the Dardanelles, but died of blood-poisoning on the Greek island of Skyros, where he is buried.

Why is Rupert Brooke famous?

Rupert Brooke was an English poet and writer.

Rupert Brooke Lists

	1887 births
	1915 deaths
	Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
	Bloomsbury Group
	British military personnel killed in World War I
	British World War I poets
	War writers
	Deaths from sepsis
	People of the Edwardian era
	English poets
	Infectious disease deaths in Greece
	LGBT people from England
	LGBT writers from the United Kingdom
	Old Rugbeians
	People from Rugby
	Royal Navy officers
	Sonneteers
	Royal Navy officers of World War I
	Skyros

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Category: Poets  - ( Poets Archive)

Date Added: 07 November '11

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