Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

A selective list online literary criticism for British poet Rupert Brooke, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA guidelines for web pages

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General articles

Bridges, J. An introduction to Rupert Brooke from the Literary Encyclopedia, 24 July 2002.

"Rupert Brooke's Obituary in the [London] Times." Anthem for Doomed Youth: Writers and Literature of The Great War, 1914-1918.

"Rupert Brooke." Lost Poets of the Great War. Ed. Harry Rusch.

"Rupert Brooke." Academy of American Poets. A very brief introduction.

Web sites

Rupert Brooke. Rupert Brooke Society. All of Rupert Brooke's Collected Poems, also Brooke's other informal verse, fragments and juvenilia; information about the Rupert Brooke Society Magazine (with some full text articles); news.

Maybin, Neil. "Rupert Brooke on Skyros." About Brooke's grave on the Aegean island of Skyros; brief biography; information about Brooke's war experience.

Friends of the Dymock poets. Hon. Secretary, Catharine Luck. Six poets who lived and worked in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire just before the First World War: Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Robert Frost, Wilfrid Gibson and Edward Thomas; biographies; bibliography.

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