Rupert Brooke
Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his
idealistic war
sonnets written during the
First World War, especially "
The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet
W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of
Skyros in the
Aegean Sea.
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