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With the exception of poems by my father, the poetry of Rupert Brooke was the first I read avidly, after stumbling on a copy of his works in our school library aged 14 or 15. He is perhaps best known now for war poems and Grantchester, but these three I think are probably his best poems - and give a tantalising flavour of what he might have done, if not cut off by war at just 27.
With the exception of poems by my father, the poetry of Rupert Brooke was the first I read avidly, after stumbling on a copy of his works in our school library aged 14 or 15. He is perhaps best known now for war poems and Grantchester, but these three I think are probably his best poems - and give a tantalising flavour of what he might have done, if not cut off by war at just 27.