biography
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Brooke, Rupert (Chawner)
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| lived:
| (1887–1915)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Rugby, Warwickshire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, travelled in Germany, and visited the USA and Tahiti. He died a commissioned officer on Skyros on his way to the Dardanelles, and was buried there. His Poems appeared in 1911, and 1914 and Other Poems in 1915, after his death. His handsome appearance and untimely death made him a favourite poet among young people in the interwar period. |
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