The English poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was the poet-patriot hero of World War I. He is the most famous representative of Georgian poetry, a short-lived literary movement of the early 20th century. Rupert Brooke was born on Aug. 3, 1887, at Rugby,...

At the time of his death in 1915, Rupert Brooke was considered to be England's foremost young poet. A golden-haired, blue-eyed English Adonis, Brooke was the epitome of doomed youth, of the generation that was killed in the trenches of World War I. The...

On our trip to the Chilterns before Easter, we were taken by hosts Richard and Rachel on a long Sunday walk, the reward for which was a lunch at a pub called the Pink and Lily at a place called Lacey Green. Nice pub,...

For two decades young admirers - some English, some transplanted Americans such as he was - had clustered around Henry James. They are reflected (discreetly) in his stories. It was thus irregular but not entirely unexpected that an invitation to visit Cambridge in the...

In the following essay, Laskowski provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Brooke's verse.

In the following essay, Moeyes discusses Brooke's place in literary history, asserting that he "is a transitional figure, entering a new age for which he was not prepared."

In the following essay, Hynes offers a mixed assessment of Brooke's poetry.

A comparsison of universal ideas regarding war in general, conveyed in the following works about World War I: the film "All Quiet On the Western Front" and the poems "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke, "Counter Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon, and "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.