The old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke

The old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), a member of the group of British poets who rose to prominence during World War I, sprang to fame when two of his combat sonnets (The Dead and The Soldier) were published in London's Times Literary Supplement on March 11, 1915. 1914 and Other Poems was released less than two months later, and by June 1918, it had gone through 24 prints. Brooke sailed on a Navy ship in February 1915, after being enlisted into the British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, to fight at Gallipoli in Turkey. He died of sepsis caused by an infected mosquito bite shortly after, at the age of 27, on a French hospital ship docked off the coast of Skyros in the Aegean Sea. Brooke was laid to rest in an olive grove on the Greek island of Skyros.