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"The Soldier" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. It is the fifth and final SONNET in the sequence 1914 , published posthumously in 1915 in the collection 1914 and Other Poems . The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge .
Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 [1]) 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".
Brooke wrote the five poems that were published in 1914 in the autumn after the outbreak of the First World War when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. Also in this collection is 'The Soldier', one of Brooke's most famous poems, though 'The Dead' (IV) was one of his personal favourites. The poems were published in New Numbers before being ...
Rupert Brooke's 1914 poem, The Soldier – "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England", is a patriotic poem about the possibility of dying abroad during a war.
May Herschel-Clarke (1894–1955 [1]) was an English poet born on 19 March 1894.She is chiefly known today for her Anti-War poems Nothing to Report and The Mother, the latter of which was published in 1917 as a direct response to Rupert Brooke's famous poem The Soldier. [2]
Brooke had won the school's Poetry Prize 34 years prior to Magee. The prize-winning poem by Magee centred upon the burial of Brooke's body at 11 o'clock at night in an olive grove on the Greek island of Skyros in April 1915. Whilst at Rugby, Magee fell in love with Elinor Lyon, the daughter of P. H. B. Lyon, the headmaster.
The title evokes the Rupert Brooke poem "The Soldier". The film was driven into production by Alec Guinness who used his influence with the BBC to make it and with the various famous actors to appear in it. Writer Roy Clarke won much acclaim for A Foreign Field. [4]
It was here that Thomas began writing his poem "Words". [ 1 ] The 'Dymock Poets' are generally held to have comprised Robert Frost , Lascelles Abercrombie , Rupert Brooke , Edward Thomas , Wilfrid Wilson Gibson and John Drinkwater , some of whom lived near the village in the period between 1911 and 1914.