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Rupert Brooke

  • Rupert Chawner Brooke
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Brooke, Rupert
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Gender
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Date of birth
1887-08-03
Place of birth
Rugby
Date of death
1915-04-23
Place of death
Greece

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Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) 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". He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.

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The Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeeBook?1995-05-01
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Goodreads Author ID
546009
ISNI
0000000109003089
LibraryThing Author
brookerupert
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL218787A
VIAF
51704765
Wikidata ID
Q366086

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