By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Rupert Brooke wrote ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’ in May 1912, while he was staying in Germany. Before we offer a summary of the fifth verse paragraphs which make up the poem, you might want to read the poem first, and keep the tab containing […]
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A Short Analysis of Rupert Brooke’s ‘Heaven’
Rupert Brooke remains known for two poems: ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’, which offers a powerful vision of dreamy English life before the outbreak of the First World War; and ‘The Soldier’, a patriotic sonnet written shortly after the outbreak of the war. But although Brooke was not a prolific poet […]
A Short Analysis of Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’
By Dr Oliver Tearle Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is often considered a war poet, though he died early on in the First World War and never wrote about the gritty realities of fighting which Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg described, nor did he subject the mismanagement of the war […]
The Best Rupert Brooke Poems Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is often known as a war poet, though he died early on during the conflict and didn’t live to see the sort of combat and conditions that later poets of the First World War, such as Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg, experienced […]
Five Fascinating Facts about Rupert Brooke
Some quick facts about celebrated poet Rupert Brooke and his short but interesting life 2015 marks the centenary of Rupert Brooke’s death, so we thought we’d offer some interesting facts about the life of one of Britain’s most popular war poets. 1. Rupert Brooke once went skinny-dipping with Virginia Woolf. […]