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Rupert Brooke

Because he was born in rugby and he’s a famous poet.

He was born in Rugby Warwickshire

Rupert Brooke was born on 3 August 1887

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke who was born and brought up in Rugby.

• 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.

Rupert Brook was born in 1887.Rupert was also born in Rugby.There is even a pub named after him!Rupert volunteered to for active service at the outbreak of the war.Before the war he traveled to North America an New Zealand.Why was Rupert buried in Greece?It was commissioned by Brooke’s mother, who was concerned that the existing grave was little more than loose boulders. The concept was that of “medieval design adapted to Greek surroundings”, intended to convey an atmosphere of both precision and melancholy.He sadly died of food poisoning in 1915.

Rupert Brooke was born in 1887 in August and is known for writing poems in world war 1 for example ‘The Soldier’.  Rupert was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. Brooke fought in Belgium during the early part of World War 1, after returning to England he wrote 5 poems about war and became a famous poet.  Rupert Brooke’s mot famous poem is ‘The Soldier’ It includes well known lines about a corner of a foreign field  forever forever being a little piece of England. Rupert Brooke died from blood poisoning which came from a bug bite.

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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♣Rupert Brooke died in world war 1 at the age 27 Rupert was born in Rugby and lived in Italy but studied at Germany he served in the British royal navy he made many poems including: The soldier, The dead, The old and many more he was a brave soldier in war but sadly died by blood poisoning. Before fighting in the war Rupert Brook was a poet (and a very good one to.) If he got any medals I would mention them but he did not get any medals and he dint have a wife either in his younger age he went to Kings college and he studied classics before he became a poet he was a kitchen staff. He is very famous for his poetry and a very lucky man.♣

Who is Rupert Brooke?

Rupert Brooke was a famous writer during world war 1. He was also known as the most handsome man during those times. He made a very famous poem that made him famous, the poem was called The soldier,sonnet. He was also a academic, campaigner, and aesthete who died serving in World War 1. Literary friends established him as one of the leading poet-soldiers.

Early life

 Rupert Brooke was born in August 3rd 1887, his father was a housemaster at Rugby School. After Rupert left Cambridge University, where he became friends with many of  those in the ‘Bloomsbury Group,’ Rupert  studied in Germany.

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