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16 de fev. de 2016 · Discover five of the finest poems by Rupert Brooke, a war poet who died young in 1915. Read his love poems, war sonnets, and reflections on life and death.
Learn about the life and works of Rupert Brooke, a popular English war poet who died in 1915. Read some of his poems, such as "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" and "Tiare Tahiti", that reflect his love of nature, travel, and patriotism.
Rupert Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the first year of the First World War. His work is characterized by romanticism and patriotic zeal, reflecting the prevalent cultural mood of England in the early 20th century before the realities of the war became apparent.
The Poems of Rupert Brooke. This section of the Rupert Brooke Society's web site includes all of Rupert Brooke's Collected Poems. The text here is based on the Second Edition, published in 1931, which includes two poems omitted from the First Edition.
- Introduction
- Appendix
- The True Beatitude
- Rupert Brooke: A Biographical Note
I Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was "vivid". This vitality, though manifold in expression, is felt primarily in his sensations — surprise mingled with delight — This is life's "first fine...
NOTE The Appendix contains: (1) the only two coherent fragments found in the notebook which Brooke used in the last month of his life; a little song, written, I think on his travels; and a poem, dating probably from 1912, which for some reason he left unrevised; (2) a few "lighter" poems which I dare say he would have printed on their merits if he ...
Sonnet Reversed It's Not Going to Happen Again The Little Dog's Day 1 (return) [ Now we're off] 2 (return) [ I'll make them sit up.] 3 (return) [ Pronounce either to suit rhyme.]
Any biographical account of Rupert Brooke must of necessity be brief; yet it is well to know the facts of his romantic career, and to see him as far as may be through the eyes of those who knew him (the writer was unfortunately not of this number) in order the better to appreciate his work. He was born at Rugby on August 3, 1887, his father, Willia...
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".
The Soldier. By Rupert Brooke. If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England. There shall be. In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
