War Poets -Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as Chaucer)[1] (3 August 1887 23 April 1915[2]) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier); however, he never experienced combat at first hand. He was also known for his boyish good looks, which prompted the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".

Brooke's accomplished poetry gained many enthusiasts and followers and he was taken up by Edward Marsh who brought him to the attention of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. He was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a temporary Sub-Lieutenant[8] shortly after his 27th birthday and took part in the Royal Naval Division's Antwerp expedition in October 1914. He sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. He died at 4:46 pm on 23 April 1915 in a French hospital ship moored in a bay off the island of Skyros in the Aegean on his way to a battle at Gallipoli. As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, he was buried at 11 pm in an olive grove on Skyros, Greece.[1][2][9] The site was chosen by his close friend, William Denis Browne, who wrote of Brooke's death:
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[scifiwritir]

I really like Rupert. Like this poem a lot (although Wilfred Owen is my fave). My favorite Rupert poem is "I have been so great a lover"

[JustAudio2008]

@scifiwritir - if I can find this poem I will upload it for you.

Best wishes

R

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