 Rupert
Chawner Brooke (1887 – 1915)
Biography
Rupert Chawner Brooke was a British war poet,
somewhat idealistic and known for his looks. W.B. Years once
described him as “the handsomest young man in England.”
Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, he attended Rugby School where
his father was a schoolmaster. He later attended King’s
College, Cambridge, where he became one of the ‘Cambridge
Apostles’, and made friends with members of the Bloomsbury
group.
Brooke struggled somewhat with his sexuality, which often
led to a frustrated and unhappy romantic life.
During the First World War, Rupert Brooke was commissioned
into the Navy, just after his twenty-seventh birthday, and
took part in the Royal Navy Division’s Antwerp expedition.
He died on April 23rd, 1915 off the island of Lemnos, in the
Argean, on his way to battle at Gallipoli after contracting
pneumonia from an infected mosquito bite. His body is buried
on the island of Skyros, Freece.
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Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth
(Hardcover)
by Nigel Jones (Author)
Since his death in the First World War, Brooke
has been identified with a romantic myth of
a lost world where church clocks stood still
and there was eternal honey for tea. But, as
this book shows, the truth about Brooke was
both more shocking and a lot more interesting.
Drawing on a mass of documentation, much of
it unpublished, this new biography brings out
the full story behind one of the century's most
enduring literary legends... |
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