Rupert Brooke

03 August 1887 - 23 April 1915

RB , 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.

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3 August 1887

RB , poet, was born at Rugby in Warwickshire, the middle one in a family of three sons.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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.

Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.

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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.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Education

3 August 1887

RB , poet, was born at Rugby in Warwickshire, the middle one in a family of three sons.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.