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• Rupert Brooke suffered a nervous breakdown in 1912 and went to Germany and America to recover. While there, he wrote travel diaries for a London newspaper, the Westminster Gazette.
• He also spent some time in Tahiti, where he wrote some of his early poems and fathered a child who died in 1990. He returned to England because of a lack of money.
• Brooke fought in Belgium during the early part of World War I. After returning to England, he wrote 5 poems about war which would make him famous.
• He sailed to Greece in early 1915, although German mines in the Mediterranean meant the ship went to Egypt instead. In Egypt, Brooke suffered from sunstroke and stomach troubles.
• Rupert Brooke’s most famous work is The Soldier, written during World War I. It includes the well known lines about a corner of a foreign field forever being a little piece of England.

(3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet . He is known for his war sonnets  written during the  WW1. His best known work is “The Soldier” . irish  poet  W.B yeats described him as “the handsomest young man in England.

Why is Rupert Brooke important?

Rupert Brooke is important because he died in World War 1 , so on the  11 of November at 11.11 we have a minutes silent to remember every one who died in the war. He is also wrote a selection of poems and one of them are called ‘The Soldier`.

Where was he born?

Rupert Brooke was born in August 3 1887 in Rugby, England .

When did he die ?

On April 23 1925 , he was a young scholar  for the British Royal Navy and died of blood poisoning in Greece .

How many poems did he write ?

He wrote seven brilliant poems like .

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