Rupert Brooke

Yeats called Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) "the handsomest young man in England," and Henry James was only one of many -- old and young, male and female, writer and non-writer -- to go into a flutter over the poet's looks and surface charm.

Jill Dawson's novel about Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover" Thomas Mallon 2010

And I have read some WWI era poets, such as Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen.

Siegfried Sassoon, "Fight to a Finish" Victoria Janssen 2009

The poet Wilfred Owen was little known before his death one week before the Armistice, but the short, wasted lives of men like him and fellow war poets Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley and Isaac Rosenberg embody what one of Owen's poems called the "Futility" of the war.

Their Name Still Liveth Joanna Scutts 2011

The area, which includes the village of Grantchester made famous by Rupert Brooke and latterly Jeffrey Archer, derives most of its prosperity from the university city it encircles.

South Cambridgeshire tops quality of life survey 2011

It was in the context of this war effort in words that Rupert Brooke produced his most famous lin es: If I should die, think only this of me. . .

Versed in the Horror of War Michael Caines 2011

Rupert Brooke captured a certain public mood with the lines: "To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping / Glad from a world grown old, and cold and weary."

War and Its Discontents William Anthony Hay 2011

And it's not just musicians; there have been poets (Rupert Brooke), artists (Jean-Michel Basquait), and movie stars (Heath Ledger) who have made it.

Dear Lindsay, Please Don't Join the 27 Club Virginia Bell 2010

And it's not just musicians; there have been poets (Rupert Brooke), artists (Jean-Michel Basquait), and movie stars (Heath Ledger) who have made it.

Virginia Bell: Dear Lindsay, Please Don't Join the 27 Club 2010

For Rupert Brooke, there was some corner of a foreign field that was forever England.

Pakistan find a corner of Birmingham to be very much like home 2010

Free love worked out better for the dishy World War I poet Rupert Brooke, who wrote the immortal lines: If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.

Summer Titles That Will Take You Back In Time 2010