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Rupert Brooke
1887–1915
Best known for the wartime sonnet "The Soldier," this English poet wrote with a mix of youthful idealism, lyrical beauty, and quiet melancholy. His life was brief, but his poems helped define how many readers imagined the early years of the First World War.
4 Audiobooks
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
by Rupert Brooke
1914, and Other Poems
by Rupert Brooke
Letters from America
by Rupert Brooke
Selected Poems
by Rupert Brooke
About the author
Born in 1887, Rupert Brooke was an English poet educated at Rugby School and later at King's College, Cambridge. He became part of the literary life around Cambridge and was admired in his own time for both his writing and his striking public image.
Brooke wrote poems that moved easily between love, nature, reflection, and patriotism. He is especially remembered for his 1914 war sonnets, including "The Soldier," which made him one of the most famous poetic voices linked to the opening of the First World War.
He served in the Royal Naval Division during the war and died in 1915, at just 27, while on his way to the Gallipoli campaign. Because his career ended so early, his reputation has remained bound up with both his promise as a poet and the sense of a brilliant life cut short.