Background
Literary friends and admirers wrote powerful - often poetic - eulogies, establishing Brooke, not as a lovelorn wandering poet and deceased soldier, but as a mythologised golden warrior, a creation which remained in post-war culture.
Literary friends and admirers wrote powerful - often poetic - eulogies, establishing Brooke, not as a lovelorn wandering poet and deceased soldier, but as a mythologised golden warrior, a creation which remained in post-war culture.
High School: Hillbrow Prep School
High School: Rugby School
University: King's College, Cambridge University
Few biographies, no matter how small, can resist quoting the comments of W. B. Yeats, that Brooke was "the most handsome man in Britain", or an opening line from Cornford, "A young Apollo, golden haired". Even though some had harsh words for him - Virginia Woolf later commented on occasions when Brooke's puritan upbringing appeared beneath his normally carefree exterior - a legend was formed.
