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The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke · George Edward Woodberry · Margaret Lavington
About this book
This collection gathers the poetry of Rupert Brooke, an English poet associated with the First World War, with an introduction by George Edward Woodberry and a biographical note by Margaret Lavington. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century English poetry and war literature.
Rupert Brooke
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". He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
