Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Walter de La Mare (1873-1956),

Walter de La Mare (1873-1956), English poet, anthologist, and novelist. Walter John De la Mare was born in Charlton, Kent, and educated at Saint Paul's School, London. In 1908 a royal grant enabled him to devote himself entirely to writing. De la Mare's writings have an eerie, fantastic quality, which serves as a means of entry into a world of deeper reality. His perceptions endow his work with charm and candor. Among his writings are the collections of verse Songs of Childhood (1902), The Listeners and Other Poems (1912), and O Lovely England (1953); the long poem The Traveller (1946); the novels The Return (1910) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921); and Collected Tales (1949). De la Mare also compiled Come Hither (1923; reprinted 1957), an anthology of English verse primarily for children. De la Mare is remembered as a poet for adults and children whose work was idiosyncratic, technically accomplished, and possessed of a style uniquely his own.

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), English poet. Rupert Chawner Brooke was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, and educated at King's College, University of Cambridge. While serving with the British Royal Naval Division during World War I, Brooke died of blood poisoning in Greece. His untimely death, his great personal attraction, and the charm of his verse made him a symbol of all the gifted youth killed in that war. His first collection Poems was published in 1911; “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester,” Brooke's tribute to a lovely village near Cambridge, appeared in 1912. The poet's most famous work, the sonnet sequence 1914 and Other Poems, was published in the year of his death. These poems continue the boyish idealism of his earlier poetry. In The Letters of Rupert Brooke (1968) are found poignant views on the tragedy and waste of war. His experiences in the United States and Canada are described in Letters from America (1916).

Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887 - 1915)

English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke died at the age of 28 while serving with the British Royal Naval Division during World War I. As a result of his early death and unfulfilled literary promise, Brooke became a symbol of the talented youth killed in the war. Brooke’s early writings express the initial patriotism of British citizens at the outset of the war, but his final works describe the war’s tragedy and cruelty.

 

"The Soldier"

Patriotism

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.

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