Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Brooke was an English poet best known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the early stages of World War I.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf English poet
human
poet
allegiance United Kingdom
associatedWith Grantchester
King's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
burialPlace Skyros, Greece
causeOfDeath blood poisoning
sepsis
conflict World War I
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1887-08-03
dateOfDeath 1915-04-23
describedBySource Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
educatedAt King's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Rugby School
era 20th-century literature
familyName Brooke
fullName Rupert Chawner Brooke
gender male
genre sonnet
war poetry
givenName Rupert
hasOccupation soldier-poet
hasPoem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
hasWorkInTheCollection 1914 and Other Poems (1915)
influenced perception of WWI in early British poetry
knownFor idealistic war sonnets of World War I
languageOfWorkOrName English
mannerOfDeath disease
memberOf Apostles (Cambridge Conversazione Society)
militaryBranch Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
movement Georgian poetry
nationality British
notableFor patriotic tone in early WWI poetry
notableWork 1914 and Other Poems
Peace
The Dead
The Soldier
occupation poet
writer
placeOfBirth Rugby, Warwickshire, England
placeOfDeath Aegean Sea
off Skyros, Greece
religion Anglicanism
residence Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England
serviceNumber officer

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Georgian poetry
associatedWith
Herbert Henry Asquith ("Herbert Asquith (poet)")
child
Rupert Brooke ("Rupert Chawner Brooke")
fullName
Rupert
hasNotableBearer
Siegfried Sassoon
influencedBy
Cambridge Apostles
notableMember

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