Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke, one of the leading poets of his generation, was
renowned as a romantic, unlike many of his contemporaries who 1. ______
specialized in writing about the pointless of war. 2. ______
He was born in 1887, the son of a House Master at Rugby,
where Rupert attended both the preparatory and main schools. When
he went up to Cambridge in 1906 as a classics scholar, he fared badly 3. ______
in his examinations as his interests laid in literature and theater. 4. ______
During his time at Cambridge, his wit and good looks ensured his
place as a member of the elite circle of intellectuals study there. 5. ______
After university he went to study German in Munich, falling in
love with a sculptress there and working feverishly to begin his first 6. ______
volume of poetry, which produced a profit within a few weeks of its
publication in 1911.
With his early success, Brooke often felt unsettled as he 7. ______
struggled to come to term with the underlying contradictions in his 8. ______
character. Many times his free spirits and bohemianism conflicted 9. ______
directly with the innate Puritanism he inherited from his mother. 10. ______
Because of these he would sometimes distance himself from his
fellows and adopt an irrational suspicious attitude towards them.