← Rupert BrookeCollected Poemsby Rupert BrookeFind on Amazon↗About the authorRupert BrookeEnglish poet who became an icon of the generation that went to war in 1914. His sonnet The Soldier, with its patriotic idealism, contrasts with the grimmer realism that followed.More by Rupert Brooke1914 and Other PoemsCollection of patriotic poems written on the eve of World War→The Old Vicarage GrantchesterPoem evoking nostalgia and idle wandering at Cambridge→