Rupert Brooke, one of the leading voices in the early twentieth-century Georgian movement in poetry, is remembered primarily as a war poet, although he died before the First World War was a year old.
Milestones
3 August 1887 RB, poet, was born at
Rugby in
Warwickshire, the middle one in a family of three sons.
23 April 1915 The poet and wartime naval officer RB died at sea near the
Greek island of
Skyros or Scyros, probably from septicaemia caused by a mosquito bite.
1915 In the year of RB's death a sequence of publications gained him tremendous, immediate posthumous fame:
1914 and Other Poems, followed by
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke published in
New York, and his only play,
Lithuania.
