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Key facts
- Born
- Rupert Chawner Brooke , ( 1887-08-03 ) 3 August 1887, Rugby , Warwickshire, England
- Died
- 23 April 1915 (1915-04-23) (aged 27), Skyros , Greece
- Education
- Rugby School King's College, Cambridge (fellow)
- Occupation
- Poet
- Employer
- Sidgwick & Jackson (publisher)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Rugby
- Place of death
- Aegean Sea
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Movement
- Bloomsbury Group
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- Royal Navy
- Official website
- rupertbrooke.com
- Image
- Rupert Brooke.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rupert Brooke
- date of death
- 1915-01-01
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1887-01-01
- cause of death
- sepsis
- Commons gallery
- Rupert Brooke
- place of burial
- Scyros
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- date of burial or cremation
- 1915-04-23
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Rupert Chawner Brooke
- Commons Creator page
- Rupert Brooke
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Rupert Brooke, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.
Early life
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