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Brooke (RUPERT an English poet)

RUPERT, an English poet and writer. He was born in Rugby in 1877, and was educated at Rugby School and at King's College, Cambridge. For several years he lived in Cambridge and devoted himself chiefly to the writing of poetry. His first volume was published in 1911 and was well received. He showed evidence of unusual talent and was considered one of the leaders of the new school of poetry. At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted, and while engaged in service was taken ill with blood poisoning. He died on April 23, 1915, on board a French hospital ship.

A number of poems inspired by the war exhibit remarkable dramatic powers. His collected poems were published in 1915.

Other works are "John Webster and Elizabethan Drama" (1916); "Letters from America" (1916); "Lithuania," a drama in one act (1916).

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