Rupert Brooke

Profession: Poet

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Biography: English poet whose idealized portrait of war summed up English feeling before the First World War. He died aged 27 of pneumococcal sepsis in 1915 on his way to take part in the Gallipoli landings.

His most well known poem is "The Soldier" with the famous opening lines "If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England".

Born: August 3, 1887

Generation: Lost Generation
Star Sign: Leo

Died: April 23, 1915 (aged 27)