Rupert Brooke
English poet (1887-1915) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 27
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, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".
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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
Brooke Square, Skyros
Statue of Brooke in Rugby, by Ivor Roberts-Jones (1988)
Oil painting of Rupert Brooke at The Orchard Tea Rooms by Stephen Hopper (2023)
Blow out your bugles, detail on Memorial Arch (by John M. Lyle) at Royal Military College of CanadaAbout this person
He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.
