About Rupert Brooke | Academy of American Poets

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" dir="ltr" prefix="content: http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/ dc: http://purl.org/dc/terms/ foaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ og: http://ogp.me/ns# rdfs: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# schema: http://schema.org/ sioc: http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns# sioct: http://rdfs.org/sioc/types# skos: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core# xsd: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema# "> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <meta name="description" content="Rupert Brooke - English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905." /> <meta name="abstract" content="Rupert Brooke - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets." /> <meta name="keywords" content="poetry, poets, Rupert Brooke" /> <link rel="canonical" href="https://poets.org/poet/rupert-brooke" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Poets.org" /> <meta property="og:type" content="person" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://poets.org/poet/rupert-brooke" /> <meta property="og:title" content="Rupert Brooke" /> <meta property="og:description" content="English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905." /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://poets.org/sites/default/files/styles/social_share/public/images/biographies/RubertBrooke_NewBioImage.jpg?itok=TMyzyW1I" /> <meta property="og:image:width" content="110" /> <meta property="og:image:height" content="108" /> <meta property="og:image:alt" content="English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905." /> <meta property="og:updated_time" content="2022-08-02T11:38:18-04:00" /> <meta property="og:street_address" content="75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901" /> <meta property="og:locality" content="New York" /> <meta property="og:region" content="NY" /> <meta property="og:postal_code" content="10038" /> <meta property="og:country_name" content="United States" /> <meta property="og:email" content="academy@poets.org" /> <meta property="og:phone_number" content="(212) 274-0343" /> <meta property="og:fax_number" content="(212) 274-9427" /> <meta name="dcterms.title" content="Rupert Brooke" /> <meta name="dcterms.creator" content="Academy of American Poets" /> <meta name="dcterms.subject" content="poetry, poets, Rupert Brooke" /> <meta name="dcterms.description" content="Rupert Brooke - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets." /> <meta name="dcterms.type" content="text" /> <meta name="dcterms.format" content="text/html" /> <meta name="dcterms.identifier" content="https://poets.org/poet/rupert-brooke" /> <meta property="fb:app_id" content="370039556748135" /> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <meta name="twitter:description" content="English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905." /> <meta name="twitter:site" content="@POETSprg" /> <meta name="twitter:title" content="Rupert Brooke" /> <meta name="twitter:site:id" content="7235452" /> <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://poets.org/sites/default/files/styles/social_share/public/images/biographies/RubertBrooke_NewBioImage.jpg?itok=TMyzyW1I" /> <meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905." /> <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 9 (https://www.drupal.org)" /> <meta name="MobileOptimized" content="width" /> <meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> <script type="application/ld+json">{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Rupert Brooke", "description": "English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905.\n\nA year later, Brooke attended King’s College, Cambridge, where he was known for his striking good looks, charm, and intellect. While at Cambridge, he developed an interest in acting and was president of the University Fabian Society. Brooke published his first poems in 1909. His first book, Poems (Sidgwick \u0026 Jackson, Limited), appeared in 1911. While working on his dissertation on John Webster and Elizabethan dramatists, he lived in the house that he made famous by his poem “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.”\n\nPopular in both literary and political circles, Brooke befriended Winston Churchill, Henry James, and members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf. Although he was popular, Brooke had a troubled love life. Between 1908 and 1912 he fell in love with three women: Noel Olivier, youngest daughter of the governor of Jamaica; Ka Cox, who preceded him as president of the Fabian Society; and Cathleen Nesbitt, a British actress. None of the relationships were long lasting. In 1912, after his third romance failed, Brooke left England to travel in France and Germany for several months.\n\nUpon his return to England, Brooke received a fellowship at King’s College and spent time in both Cambridge and London. In 1912, he compiled an anthology entitled Georgian Poetry, 1911–12, with arts patron and translator Edward Marsh. The Georgian poets wrote in an anti-Victorian style, using rustic themes and subjects, such as friendship and love. While critics viewed Brooke’s poetry as too sentimental and lacking depth, they also considered his work a reflection of the mood in England during the years leading up to World War I.\n\nAfter experiencing a mental breakdown in 1913, Brooke traveled again, spending several months in the U.S., Canada, and the South Seas. During his trip, he wrote essays about his impressions for the Westminster Gazette, which were collected in Letters From America (McClelland, Goodchild \u0026 Stewart, Ltd., 1916). While in the South Seas, he wrote some of his best poems, including “Tiare Tahiti” and “The Great Lover.” Brooke returned to England at the outbreak of the First World War and enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. His most famous work, the sonnet sequence 1914 and Other Poems (Sidgwick \u0026 Jackson, Limited), appeared in 1915.\n\nOn April 23, 1915, after taking part in the Antwerp Expedition, Brooke died of blood poisoning from a mosquito bite. He had been en route to Gallipoli with the Royal Navy’s British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, for which he served as a sub-lieutenant. He was buried on the island of Skyros.\n\nFollowing his death, Brooke, who was already famous, became a symbol in England of the tragic loss of talented youth during the war.", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.poets.org/sites/default/files/cdsn9odz_400x400.png", "width": "800", "height": "800" }, "datePublished": "Mon, 05/24/1999 - 00:00", "dateModified": "Tue, 08/02/2022 - 11:38", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Poets.org - Academy of American Poets", "url": "https://poets.org/poet/rupert-brooke", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.poets.org/sites/default/files/large-blue-rgb-poets.org-logo-web.jpg", "width": "60", "height": "259" } }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Poets.org - Academy of American Poets", "url": "https://poets.org/poet/rupert-brooke", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.poets.org/sites/default/files/large-blue-rgb-poets.org-logo-web.jpg", "width": "60", "height": "259" } }, "mainEntityOfPage": "https://poets.org/poet/rupert-brooke" }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://poets.org/poet/rupert-brooke", "name": "Academy of American Poets", "url": "https://poets.org/", "telephone": "(212) 274-0343", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": [ "75 Maiden Lane", "Suite 901" ], "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "postalCode": "10038", "addressCountry": "USA" } } ] }</script> <link rel="icon" href="/themes/custom/stanza/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" /> <title>About Rupert Brooke | Academy of American Poets</title> <link rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/default/files/css/css_RGzzZisiIh6h3vJ4zDqyQ8H1tzvucrDojfF1YLQySSY.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/sites/default/files/css/css_TfqyB0xnGYaTfeSVbNoxvmauC4vcV89jL4QRKBONFJ0.css" /> <script src="//securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js"></script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-ZCRT7WN8HQ"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-ZCRT7WN8HQ'); </script> </head> <body class="node-type--person"> <a href="#main-content" class="visually-hidden focusable"> Skip to main content </a> <div class="dialog-off-canvas-main-canvas" data-off-canvas-main-canvas> <div class="layout-container"> <header role="banner"> <div class="region region-header app-nav__container"> <div class="navbar shadow-md d-flex navbar-dark bg-dark navbar-expand-lg"> <div class="navbar-brand btn btn-md d-flex flex-row d-lg-none"> <a href="/" class="d-inline-flex flex-row">Poets.org</a> <span class="oi oi-caret-bottom d-inline-flex d-sm-inline-flex d-lg-none flex-row"></span> </div> <button data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#nav_collapse" type="button" aria-label="Menu" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="border-0 navbar-toggler"> <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span> </button> <div id="nav_collapse" class="navbar-collapse collapse"> <h2 class="visually-hidden" id="block-mobilemenu-menu">mobileMenu</h2> <ul class="list-group menu--mobile d-flex d-lg-none"> <li class="list-group-item bg-dark"> <a href="/poems" class="text-white" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" role="button" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11197">Poems</a> </li> <li class="list-group-item bg-dark"> <a href="/poets" class="text-white" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" role="button" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11198">Poets</a> </li> <li class="list-group-item bg-dark"> <a href="/poem-a-day" title="Poem-a-Day" class="text-white" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" role="button" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696783">Poem-a-Day</a> </li> <li class="list-group-item bg-dark"> <a href="/national-poetry-month" title="National Poetry Month" class="text-white" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" role="button" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696774">National Poetry Month</a> </li> <li class="list-group-item bg-dark collapsed"> <a href="/materials-teachers" title="Materials for Teachers" class="text-white" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" role="button" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/117367">Materials for Teachers</a> </li> <li class="list-group-item bg-dark"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/seminars" title="Literary Seminars" class="text-white" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" role="button" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/719065">Literary Seminars</a> </li> <li class="list-group-item bg-dark"> <a href="/american-poets-magazine" title="American Poets Magazine" class="text-white" aria-controls="nav_collapse" aria-expanded="false" role="button" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11244">American Poets Magazine</a> </li> </ul> <h2 class="visually-hidden" id="block-mainnavigation-menu">Main navigation</h2> <ul class="navbar-nav menu--desktop d-none d-lg-flex"> <li class="nav-item menu-item--collapsed"> <a href="/" class="nav-link" data-drupal-link-system-path="<front>">Poets.org</a> </li> <li class="nav-item menu-item--collapsed"> <a href="/academy-american-poets" class="nav-link" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/597143">Academy of American Poets</a> </li> <li class="nav-item menu-item--collapsed"> <a href="/national-poetry-month" class="nav-link" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696774">National Poetry Month</a> </li> <li class="nav-item menu-item--collapsed"> <a href="/american-poets-magazine" class="nav-link" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11244">American Poets Magazine</a> </li> </ul> <h2 class="visually-hidden" id="block-useraccountmenu-menu">User account menu</h2> <ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto menu--utility"> <li class="menu-item nav-item app-nav__login"> <a href="/user/login" class="nav-link" data-drupal-link-system-path="user/login">Log in</a> </li> <li class="app-nav__membership menu-item nav-item app-nav__logged-in"> <a href="/membership" title="Become a member of the Academy of American Poets" class="nav-link" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696933">Membership</a> </li> <li class="app-nav__donate btn d-none d-lg-flex btn-secondary-dark btn-md collapsed menu-item nav-item app-nav__logged-in"> <a href="/donate/monthly" title="Support the mission of the Academy of American Poets" class="nav-link" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696934">Donate</a> </li> </ul> <a target="_self" href="/donate/monthly" class="btn d-block py-2 d-lg-none btn-secondary-dark btn-md collapsed btn--donate-mobile" aria-expanded="false" role="button">Donate</a> </div> </div> <a href="/donate/monthly" class="btn w-100 d-block py-2 d-lg-none btn-secondary-dark btn-md btn--donate" role="button">Donate</a> </div> </header> <div class="promo dark"> <div class="container"> <div class="gpt-ad-unit" data-ad-unit data-ad-unit-code="AAP-Desktop-Leaderboard-AD-Large" data-ad-unit-id="21679694993" data-ad-unit-sizes="728x90 970x250" ></div> </div> </div> <section class="bg-primary hero hero--default jumbotron jumbotron-fluid"> <div class="container hero__grid">  <div class="hero__logo-container"> <a href="/" class="hero__logo"> <img src="/themes/custom/stanza/assets/images/optimized/hero/Large-White-RGB-Poets.org-Logo.png" alt="Poets.org" class="img-fluid"> </a> </div>  <div class="hero__search-container"> <form class="poets-search__form" method="GET" action="/search"> <div class="form-group"> <label for="poets-search-input" class="sr-only">Search</label> <div class="input-group"> <input type="search" autocomplete="off" name="combine" placeholder="search" value="" class="poets-search__form-input form-control"> <div class="input-group-append"> <button type="submit" class="btn poets-search__form-button btn-secondary"> Submit </button> </div> </div> </div> </form> </div> <div class="hero__summary-container"> <h2 class="hero__heading pb-3">Poets</h2> <p class="lead mb-3 font-serif">Search more than 3,000 biographies of contemporary and classic poets.</p> </div> <div class="hero__submenu-container"> <h2 class="visually-hidden" id="block-pagesubmenublock-menu">Page submenu block</h2> <ul class="list-group hero__search__links d-none d-md-flex flex-fill"> <li class="hero__search__links__item menu-item--collapsed"> <a href="/poems" class="list-group-item hero__search__link list-group-item-action" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11197">find poems</a> </li> <li class="hero__search__links__item"> <a href="/poets" class="list-group-item hero__search__link list-group-item-action" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11198">find poets</a> </li> <li class="hero__search__links__item"> <a href="/poem-a-day" title="poem-a-day" class="list-group-item hero__search__link list-group-item-action" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696783">poem-a-day</a> </li> <li class="hero__search__links__item"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/seminars" title="literary seminars" class="list-group-item hero__search__link list-group-item-action" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/719065">literary seminars</a> </li> <li class="hero__search__links__item menu-item--collapsed"> <a href="/materials-teachers" title="materials for teachers" class="list-group-item hero__search__link list-group-item-action" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/117367">materials for teachers</a> </li> <li class="hero__search__links__item"> <a href="/poetry-near-you" title="poetry near you" class="list-group-item hero__search__link list-group-item-action" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/597148">poetry near you</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </section> <section class="sub-hero"> </section> <main class="py-5 container" id="main-content" role="main"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-md-8"> <div> <div data-drupal-messages-fallback class="hidden"></div> <div id="block-stanza-content"> <article role="article" about="/poet/rupert-brooke"> <h1 class="poet__name"> <span class="field field--title">Rupert Brooke</span> </h1> <div> <div class="field field--field_dob">1887 – </div> <div class="field field--field_dod">1915</div> <div class="row poet__read-buttons-container"><div class="poet__read-poems col-md-6"><a href="#tabbed-content" class="btn poets__read-poems-button align-middle btn-primary btn-outline-info btn-block">Read poems by this poet</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--body"><p>English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887. The son of the Rugby School’s housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father’s school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905.</p> <p>A year later, Brooke attended King’s College, Cambridge, where he was known for his striking good looks, charm, and intellect. While at Cambridge, he developed an interest in acting and was president of the University Fabian Society. Brooke published his first poems in 1909. His first book, <i>Poems </i>(Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited), appeared in 1911. While working on his dissertation on John Webster and Elizabethan dramatists, he lived in the house that he made famous by his poem “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.”</p> <p>Popular in both literary and political circles, Brooke befriended Winston Churchill, Henry James, and members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf. Although he was popular, Brooke had a troubled love life. Between 1908 and 1912 he fell in love with three women: Noel Olivier, youngest daughter of the governor of Jamaica; Ka Cox, who preceded him as president of the Fabian Society; and Cathleen Nesbitt, a British actress. None of the relationships were long lasting. In 1912, after his third romance failed, Brooke left England to travel in France and Germany for several months.</p> <p>Upon his return to England, Brooke received a fellowship at King’s College and spent time in both Cambridge and London. In 1912, he compiled an anthology entitled <i>Georgian Poetry, 1911–12</i>, with arts patron and translator Edward Marsh. The Georgian poets wrote in an anti-Victorian style, using rustic themes and subjects, such as friendship and love. While critics viewed Brooke’s poetry as too sentimental and lacking depth, they also considered his work a reflection of the mood in England during the years leading up to World War I.</p> <p>After experiencing a mental breakdown in 1913, Brooke traveled again, spending several months in the U.S., Canada, and the South Seas. During his trip, he wrote essays about his impressions for the <i>Westminster Gazette</i>, which were collected in <i>Letters From America</i> (McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Ltd., 1916). While in the South Seas, he wrote some of his best poems, including “Tiare Tahiti” and “The Great Lover.” Brooke returned to England at the outbreak of the First World War and enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. His most famous work, the <a href="https://poets.org/glossary/sonnet">sonnet</a> sequence <i>1914 and Other Poems </i>(Sidgwick & Jackson, Limited), appeared in 1915.</p> <p>On April 23, 1915, after taking part in the Antwerp Expedition, Brooke died of blood poisoning from a mosquito bite. He had been en route to Gallipoli with the Royal Navy’s British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, for which he served as a sub-lieutenant. He was buried on the island of Skyros.</p> <p>Following his death, Brooke, who was already famous, became a symbol in England of the tragic loss of talented youth during the war.</p> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> <aside class="col-md-4 layout-sidebar" role="complementary"> <div> <div id="block-nodesidebarfields"> <article role="article" about="/poet/rupert-brooke"> <div> <div class="field field--field_image"> <figure class="field__content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/images/biographies/RubertBrooke_NewBioImage.jpg" width="286" height="289" alt="Rupert Brooke" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <figcaption class="poet__sidebar-img-caption"> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--field_school_movement"> <div class="field__label">School/Movements</div> <div> <div class="field__content"> <div about="/taxonomy/term/466"> <a href="/poets?field_school_movement_target_id=466"> <div class="field field--name">Poets of World War I</div> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-element-container" id="block-views-block-related-poets-related-poets-list"> <h2>Related Poets</h2> <div><div class="js-view-dom-id-fcaca96a6a3a18e2dad3616b14bb3feeb7b4111e9adc214e1498a6353100cca1"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/poet/e-e-cummings" hreflang="und">E. E. Cummings</a></span></div></li> <li><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/poet/winifred-m-letts" hreflang="und">Winifred M. Letts</a></span></div></li> <li><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/poet/archibald-macleish" hreflang="und">Archibald MacLeish</a></span></div></li> <li><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/poet/amos-wilder" hreflang="en">Amos Wilder</a></span></div></li> <li><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/poet/guillaume-apollinaire" hreflang="und">Guillaume Apollinaire</a></span></div></li> <li><div class="views-field views-field-title"><span class="field-content"><a href="/poet/t-e-hulme" hreflang="und">T. E. Hulme</a></span></div></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </aside> </div> </main> <div class="py-5 bg-white"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-12 layout-tabbed-content" role="complementary"> <div id="tabbed-content" data-tabbed-interface> <div class="views-element-container table-container" id="block-views-block-poems-poems-by-person"> <h2>poems</h2> <div><div class="js-view-dom-id-71155fa76ec76c85ae1ffd30c77f9a36f546f77a4161609addfea2f767fcb820"> <table class="cols-2"> <thead> <tr> <th id="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published" scope="col">Year</th> <th id="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title" scope="col">Title</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/victory-0" hreflang="en">Victory</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/lines-written-belief-ancient-roman-festival-dead-was-called-ambarvalia" hreflang="en">Lines Written in Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/life-beyond" hreflang="en">The Life Beyond</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/hill-0" hreflang="en">The Hill</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/thoughts-shape-human-body" hreflang="en">Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/funeral-youth-threnody" hreflang="en">The Funeral of Youth: Threnody</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/night-journey" hreflang="en">The Night Journey </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/mutability-1" hreflang="en">Mutability</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/hauntings" hreflang="en">Hauntings</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2018 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/poem/memory-1" hreflang="en">A Memory</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <nav class="pager" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="pagination-heading"> <h4 id="pagination-heading" class="visually-hidden">Pagination</h4> <ul class="pager__items js-pager__items"> <li class="pager__item is-active"> <a href="?page=0" title="Current page"> <span class="visually-hidden"> Current page </span>1</a> </li> <li class="pager__item"> <a href="?page=1" title="Go to page 2"> <span class="visually-hidden"> Page </span>2</a> </li> <li class="pager__item pager__item--next"> <a href="?page=1" title="Go to next page" rel="next"> <span class="visually-hidden">Next page</span> <span aria-hidden="true">››</span> </a> </li> <li class="pager__item pager__item--last"> <a href="?page=1" title="Go to last page"> <span class="visually-hidden">Last page</span> <span aria-hidden="true">Last »</span> </a> </li> </ul> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-element-container table-container" id="block-views-block-text-views-for-person-texts-by-person"> <h2>Texts by</h2> <div><div class="js-view-dom-id-35be498366087c9e444ff2e28c9c16c5029dcd4faa6e7368f39121524ee1965b"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-element-container table-container" id="block-views-block-text-views-for-person-texts-about-person"> <h2>Texts about</h2> <div><div class="js-view-dom-id-ef8732f3db56e93257d0582cbe52a7e06641f750759a144f3e2a69bacc63b7cf"> <table class="cols-2"> <thead> <tr> <th id="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published" scope="col">Year</th> <th id="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title" scope="col">Title</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td headers="view-field-date-published-table-column" class="views-field views-field-field-date-published">2021 </td> <td headers="view-title-table-column" class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/text/what-owl-says-politics-empathy-and-complicity-edward-thomass-owl" hreflang="en">What the Owl Says: Politics, Empathy, and Complicity in Edward Thomas’s “The Owl”</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-nodetabbedcontentfields"> <div role="article" about="/poet/rupert-brooke"> <h2> Bibliography </h2> <div> <div class="field field--field_bibliography"><p><b>Poetry</b></p> <p><i>Poems</i> (1911)<br /><i>Georgian Poetry, 1911–1912</i> (1912)<br /><i>1914 and Other Poems</i> (1915)<br /><i>The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke</i> (1915)<br /><i>The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke</i> (1918)<br /><i>The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke</i> (1946)</p> <p><b>Prose</b></p> <p><i style="line-height: 1.263;">Lithuania: A Drama in One Act</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1915)</span><br /><i style="line-height: 1.263;">John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1916)</span><br /><i style="line-height: 1.263;">Letters From America</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1916)</span><br /><i style="line-height: 1.263;">Democracy and the Arts</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1946)</span><br /><i style="line-height: 1.263;">The Prose of Rupert Brooke</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1956)</span><br /><i style="line-height: 1.263;">The Letters of Rupert Brooke</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1968)</span><br /><i style="line-height: 1.263;">Rupert Brooke: A Reappraisal and Selection From His Writings, Some Hitherto Unpublished</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1971)</span><br /><i style="line-height: 1.263;">Letters From Rupert Brooke to His Publisher, 1911–1914</i><span style="line-height: 1.263;"> (1975)</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </aside> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="views-element-container card-deck--poet" id="block-views-block-related-poets-related-poets-cards"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <header class="d-flex flex-lg-row flex-column col-12"> <h2 itemprop="name" class="card-deck__title font-italic">Related Poets</h2> </header> </div> <div class="row card-deck__cards d-flex"> <div><div class="js-view-dom-id-8aa17a17bf723fb8291830289cf50025a0e5726c8d8806d0902f887cf33b9732"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li><div itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" role="article" about="/poet/e-e-cummings" class="item-list--poet"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="field field--field_image"> <figure class="field__content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/images/biographies/eecummin.jpg?itok=u81DsBwU" width="700" height="700" alt="E. E. Cummings" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <figcaption class="poet__sidebar-img-caption"> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="poet__name-bio"> <h3 itemprop="name" class="poet__name"> <span class="field field--title">E. E. Cummings</span> </h3> <div class="poet__bio-container"> <div class="field field--body"><p>Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax; he abandoned traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression.</p></div> <a href="/poet/e-e-cummings" rel="bookmark" class="poet__read-more">Read more about <span class="field field--title">E. E. Cummings</span> ></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li><div itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" role="article" about="/poet/winifred-m-letts" class="item-list--poet"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="poet__name-bio"> <h3 itemprop="name" class="poet__name"> <span class="field field--title">Winifred M. Letts</span> </h3> <div class="poet__bio-container"> <div class="field field--body"><p>Winifred M. Letts was a novelist, playwright, and poet who famously wrote about her experiences during World War I. Her collections include <em>More Songs from Leinster </em>(John Murray, 1926), and <em>The Spires of Oxford and Other Poems </em>(E. P. Dutton and Company, 1918). She died in 1972.</p></div> <a href="/poet/winifred-m-letts" rel="bookmark" class="poet__read-more">Read more about <span class="field field--title">Winifred M. Letts</span> ></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li><div itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" role="article" about="/poet/archibald-macleish" class="item-list--poet"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="field field--field_image"> <figure class="field__content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/images/biographies/ArchibaldMacLeish_NewBioImage.jpg?itok=ulSn36dt" width="700" height="700" alt="Archibald MacLeish" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <figcaption class="poet__sidebar-img-caption"> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="poet__name-bio"> <h3 itemprop="name" class="poet__name"> <span class="field field--title">Archibald MacLeish</span> </h3> <div class="poet__bio-container"> <div class="field field--body"><p>Born in 1892, Archibald MacLeish was a poet, critic, and playwright who fought in World War I. MacLeish was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times, and he served as a <a href="https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/chancellors">Chancellor</a> of the Academy of American Poets from 1946 to 1949. He died in 1982.</p></div> <a href="/poet/archibald-macleish" rel="bookmark" class="poet__read-more">Read more about <span class="field field--title">Archibald MacLeish</span> ></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li><div itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" role="article" about="/poet/amos-wilder" class="item-list--poet"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="poet__name-bio"> <h3 itemprop="name" class="poet__name"> <span class="field field--title">Amos Wilder</span> </h3> <div class="poet__bio-container"> <div class="field field--body"><p>Amos Wilder was born in 1895 in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1923 he published <em>Battle Retrospect</em> (Yale University Press), about his experiences in World War I, as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Also a professor of divinity, he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1993. </p></div> <a href="/poet/amos-wilder" rel="bookmark" class="poet__read-more">Read more about <span class="field field--title">Amos Wilder</span> ></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li><div itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" role="article" about="/poet/guillaume-apollinaire" class="item-list--poet"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="field field--field_image"> <figure class="field__content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/images/biographies/GuillaumeApollinaire_NewBioImage.png?itok=g7rYBFoL" width="700" height="700" alt="Guillaume Apollinaire" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <figcaption class="poet__sidebar-img-caption"> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="poet__name-bio"> <h3 itemprop="name" class="poet__name"> <span class="field field--title">Guillaume Apollinaire</span> </h3> <div class="poet__bio-container"> <div class="field field--body"><p>Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky) was born in Rome on August 26, 1880.</p><p></p></div> <a href="/poet/guillaume-apollinaire" rel="bookmark" class="poet__read-more">Read more about <span class="field field--title">Guillaume Apollinaire</span> ></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li><div itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" role="article" about="/poet/t-e-hulme" class="item-list--poet"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="field field--field_image"> <figure class="field__content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/images/biographies/tehulme_newbioimage2017.png?itok=Hx627x-W" width="700" height="700" alt="T. E. Hulme" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <figcaption class="poet__sidebar-img-caption"> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="poet__name-bio"> <h3 itemprop="name" class="poet__name"> <span class="field field--title">T. E. Hulme</span> </h3> <div class="poet__bio-container"> <div class="field field--body"><p>T. E. Hulme, one of the founders of the imagist movement, was born on September 16, 1883, in Endon, England. He was killed in action during World War I on September 28, 1917.</p></div> <a href="/poet/t-e-hulme" rel="bookmark" class="poet__read-more">Read more about <span class="field field--title">T. E. Hulme</span> ></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="region region-pre-footer newsletter-support-follow"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="newsletter-form col-md-4"> <div class="region region-pre-footer newsletter-support-follow newsletter"> <h3 class="signup-title">Newsletter Sign Up</h3> <div class="newsletter__form newsletter__content"> <div id="mc_embed_signup"> <form action="https://poets.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=e329a0cb6f08842f08a05d822&id=0e208b88ae&f_id=00686de1f0" method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_self"> <div id="mc_embed_signup_scroll"> <div class="mc-field-group input-group"> <ul class="newsletter-checkbox-list"> <li class="newsletter-checkbox custom-control custom-checkbox"> <input class="custom-control-input" type="checkbox" value="2" name="group[5895][2]" id="mce-group[5895]-5895-1"> <label class="custom-control-label" for="mce-group[5895]-5895-1">Academy of American Poets Newsletter</label> </li> <li class="newsletter-checkbox custom-control custom-checkbox"> <input class="custom-control-input" type="checkbox" value="8" name="group[5895][8]" id="mce-group[5895]-5895-3"> <label class="custom-control-label" for="mce-group[5895]-5895-3">Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter</label> </li> <li class="newsletter-checkbox custom-control custom-checkbox"> <input class="custom-control-input" type="checkbox" value="4" name="group[5895][4]" id="mce-group[5895]-5895-2"> <label class="custom-control-label" for="mce-group[5895]-5895-2">Teach This Poem</label> </li> <li class="newsletter-checkbox custom-control custom-checkbox"> <input class="custom-control-input" type="checkbox" value="1" name="group[5895][1]" id="mce-group[5895]-5895-0"> <label class="custom-control-label" for="mce-group[5895]-5895-0">Poem-a-Day</label> </li> </ul> <span id="mce-group[5895]-HELPERTEXT" class="helper_text"></span> </div> <div class="mc-field-group newsletter-email"> <label for="mce-EMAIL" class="visually-hidden">Email Address</label> <input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email form-control form-control-9" id="mce-EMAIL" required><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button btn btn btn-primary btn-secondary"> <span id="mce-EMAIL-HELPERTEXT" class="helper_text"></span> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="mce-responses" class="clear"> <div class="response" id="mce-error-response" style="display:none"></div> <div class="response" id="mce-success-response" style="display:none"></div> </div>  <div style="position: absolute; left: -5000px;" aria-hidden="true"><input type="text" name="b_e329a0cb6f08842f08a05d822_0e208b88ae" tabindex="-1" value=""></div> </div> </form> </div> </div> </div> </div> <nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="block-supportus-menu" id="block-supportus" class="support col-md-3 offset-sm-1"> <h3 class="signup-title" id="block-supportus-menu">Support Us</h3> <div class="support__content"> <ul> <li> <a href="/membership" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696933">Become a Member</a> </li> <li> <a href="/donate" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/418561">Donate Now</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academy-american-poets/get-involved" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11213">Get Involved</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academy-american-poets/make-bequest">Make a Bequest</a> </li> <li> <a href="/academy-american-poets/advertise-us" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/117963">Advertise with Us</a> </li> </ul> </div> </nav> <nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="block-followus-menu" id="block-followus" class="follow col-md-4"> <h3 class="signup-title" id="block-followus-menu">Follow Us</h3> <div class="follow__content"> <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/poets.org">Facebook</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/POETSorg">Twitter</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://poetsorg.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/poets-org">SoundCloud</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMbWrLV3xwKly6vqhnl0IXg">YouTube</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/poetsorg/?hl=en">Instagram</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/poetsorg/">Pinterest</a> </li> </ul> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <footer role="contentinfo"> <div> <div class="footer__primary pt-5 pb-5"> <nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="block-footer-menu" id="block-footer" class="mx-auto container"> <h2 class="visually-hidden" id="block-footer-menu">Footer</h2> <ul class="row"> <li class="col-sm-12 col-md-3"> <h3 class="footer__primary__links__header"> <a href="/" class="text-primary" data-drupal-link-system-path="<front>">poets.org</a> </h3> <ul> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/poems" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11197">Find Poems</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/poets" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11198">Find Poets</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/poetry-near-you" title="Poetry Near You" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/597148">Poetry Near You</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/jobs" title="Jobs for Poets" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696345">Jobs for Poets</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/seminars" title="Literary Seminars" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/719065">Literary Seminars</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/privacy" title="Privacy Policy" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/409356">Privacy Policy</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/press-center" title="Press Center" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/117534">Press Center</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/advertise-us" title="Advertise" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/117963">Advertise</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="col-sm-12 col-md-3"> <h3 class="footer__primary__links__header"> <a href="/academy-american-poets" title="academy of american poets" class="text-primary" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/597143">academy of american poets</a> </h3> <ul> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/about-us" title="About Us" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/125706">About Us</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/programs" title="Programs" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11210">Programs</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/american-poets-prizes" title="Prizes" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11207">Prizes</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/prizes/first-book-award" title="Academy of American Poets First Book Award" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/54219">First Book Award</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/prizes/james-laughlin-award" title="James Laughlin Award" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/54218">James Laughlin Award</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/prizes/ambroggio-prize" title="Ambroggio Prize" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/449841">Ambroggio Prize</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/chancellors" title="Chancellors" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11202">Chancellors</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/academy-american-poets/staff" title="Staff" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11211">Staff</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="col-sm-12 col-md-3"> <h3 class="footer__primary__links__header"> <a href="/national-poetry-month" title="national poetry month" class="text-primary" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/696774">national poetry month</a> </h3> <ul> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/gala2024" title="Poetry & the Creative Mind">Poetry & the Creative Mind</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/national-poetry-month/dear-poet" title="Dear Poet Project" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/493653">Dear Poet Project</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/national-poetry-month/get-official-poster" title="Poster" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/496344">Poster</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/national-poetry-month/30-ways-celebrate-national-poetry-month" title="30 Ways to Celebrate" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/402916">30 Ways to Celebrate</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/national-poetry-month/sponsors-partners" title="Sponsorship">Sponsorship</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="col-sm-12 col-md-3"> <h3 class="footer__primary__links__header"> <a href="/american-poets-magazine" title="american poets" class="text-primary" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/11244">american poets</a> </h3> <ul> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/american-poets-magazine/books-noted" title="Books Noted" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/424781">Books Noted</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/american-poets-magazine/previous_magazines" title="Essays">Essays</a> </li> <li class="footer__primary__links p-1"> <a href="/american-poets-magazine/advertising-american-poets" title="Advertise" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/119110">Advertise</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </nav> </div> <div class="footer__utility pt-5 pb-5"> <div class="mx-auto my-1 container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-10"> <div class="utility__links_copyright pt-4"> © Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038 </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-2"> <div class="utility__links_poets"> <a href="/"> <span class="poets-utility-link-1">poets</span> <span class="poets-utility-link-2">.org</span> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </footer> </div> </div> <script type="application/json" data-drupal-selector="drupal-settings-json">{"path":{"baseUrl":"\/","scriptPath":null,"pathPrefix":"","currentPath":"node\/45729","currentPathIsAdmin":false,"isFront":false,"currentLanguage":"en"},"pluralDelimiter":"\u0003","suppressDeprecationErrors":true,"ajaxPageState":{"libraries":"contenta_enhancements\/custom,contenta_enhancements\/fix-2886816,contenta_enhancements\/fix-2887220,poets_api_system\/getsitecontrol,stanza\/ad-units,stanza\/adjust-iframes,stanza\/bootstrap-js,stanza\/footer,stanza\/global,stanza\/hero,stanza\/main-nav,stanza\/newsletter-signup,stanza\/poet,stanza\/poet-cards,stanza\/pre-footer,stanza\/sidebar,stanza\/tabbed-interface,stripe\/stripe,system\/base,views\/views.ajax,views\/views.module","theme":"stanza","theme_token":null},"ajaxTrustedUrl":[],"views":{"ajax_path":"\/views\/ajax","ajaxViews":{"views_dom_id:71155fa76ec76c85ae1ffd30c77f9a36f546f77a4161609addfea2f767fcb820":{"view_name":"poems","view_display_id":"poems_by_person","view_args":"45729","view_path":"\/node\/45729","view_base_path":"api\/poems","view_dom_id":"71155fa76ec76c85ae1ffd30c77f9a36f546f77a4161609addfea2f767fcb820","pager_element":0}}},"user":{"uid":0,"permissionsHash":"c414be9e0e5f63c89773887af76c33fbb787e9660d6f8311a513b4eb75497f7f"}}</script> <script src="/sites/default/files/js/js_wVJsVbRuWlc2AlYT0qRNKE1hhrFHUkvwBFuQVQasoo4.js"></script> <script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/"></script> <script src="/sites/default/files/js/js_FdFn1QFhyRIFzl7OFFYCWLoBokB_FsXOWqb2l8X6WRM.js"></script> </body> </html>

CINXE.COM

About Rupert Brooke | Academy of American Poets