by Mike Read
Norton, Harry 1
‘Nursery Rhyme, A’ 1
‘Oh give our love to Lulworth Cove’ 1
‘Old Vicarage, Grantchester’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Olivier, Bryn 1, 2, 3
Olivier, Margery 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Olivier, Noel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and engagement 1, 2, 3
and poetry 1, 2
Olivier, Sir Sydney 1, 2, 3
‘On Sussex Hills’ (Belloc) 1
‘One Before the Last, The’ 1
‘One Day’ 1
‘Only the slow rain is falling’ 1
‘Our captain’s a Scotsman, what more need we say’ 1
Overcote 1, 2
Owen, Wilfred 1
Parker Brooke, William (father) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pater, Walter 1
‘Path of Dreams, The’ 1
‘Peace’ 1
Penshurst 1
Penton 1, 2
Phillpotts, Eden 1
‘Pine Trees and the Sky: Evening’ 1
Pink and Lily pub 1, 2
‘Plato was Right’ (Browne) 1
Poems 1911 1, 2, 3
Poet Laureate 1, 2
Poetry Bookshop 1, 2
Poor Law Reforms 1, 2, 3
Popham, Hugh 1
‘Portrait of Rupert Brooke’ (Ficke) 1
Princip, Gavrilo 1
Pye, Sybil 1
‘Pyramids, The’ 1
‘R. B.’ (Abercrombie) 1
‘R. B.’ (Herbert) 1
Rapoto, Arlice 1
Raverat, Jacques 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Requiem’ (Stevenson) 1
‘Retrospect’ 1
‘Return, The’ 1
Rhythm (magazine) 1, 2, 3, 4
Ricketts, Charles 1
Ross, Robert 1
Rothenstein, Albert 1, 2, 3
Royal Naval Battalion 1, 2, 3
Rugby School 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and memorial 1
‘Rupert Brooke’ (Cornford) 1
‘Rupert Brooke’ (Gibson) 1
Russell, Bertrand 1, 2, 3
Russell-Smith, Denham 1, 2
Russell-Smith, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Rye 1
‘Ryton Firs’ (Abercrombie) 1
‘Safety’ 1
‘Saint, A’ 1
Samoa 1
Sanger, C. P. 1
Sassoon, Siegfried 1
Sayle, Charles 1
Schell, Sherril 1
Scott, Duncan Campbell 1, 2
‘Seaside’ 1
‘Second Best’ 1, 2, 3
Shaw, George Bernard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1
Sheppard, Jack 1, 2
Sidgwick, Frank 1, 2, 3, 4
Sidmouth 1
Sidney, Sir Philip 1
Skyros 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Skyros (Rupert Brooke: 23 April 1915)’ (Gibson) 1
‘Soldier, The’ 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Song’ 1
‘Sonnet’ 1, 2, 3
‘Sonnet Reversed’ 1
‘Sonnet to Rupert Brooke’ (Magee) 1
Southsea 1
Stephen, Adrian 1
Stephen, Sir Leslie 1
Stephen, Virginia see Woolf, Virginia
Stevenson, Robert Louis 1
Strachey, James 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Strachey, Lytton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and Lulworth Cove 1
Strindberg, August 1, 2, 3
‘Success’ 1
Sydney-Turner, Saxon 1, 2
Taatamata 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Tahiti 1, 2, 3, 4
Tempest, Marie 1
Tennant, Pamela 1
Thackeray, William Makepeace 1
‘There’s Wisdom in Women’ 1
‘Things are a brute’ 1
Thomas, Edward 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘To E. M. (In memory of R. B.) (Gibson) 1
‘To Rupert Brooke’ (Browne) 1
‘To Rupert Brooke’ (Phillpotts) 1
Torquay 1
‘Town and Country’ 1
‘Treasure’ 1
Trevelyan, R. S. ‘Bob’ 1
‘True Beatitude, The’ 1
United States of America 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Unusual Young Man, An’ 1
Van Rysselbergh, Elizabeth 1, 2
Van Volkenburg, Ellen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Victory, HMS 1
‘Vision of Archangels, The’ 1
‘Voice, The’ 1, 2
‘Waikiki’ 1
Ward, Dudley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and Poor Laws campaign 1, 2, 3
and Taatamata 1
Wareham 1
‘Ways That Lovers Use, The’ 1
Webb, Beatrice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Webb, Sydney 1, 2
Webster, John 1, 2, 3
Wellesley, Lady Eileen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wells, H. G. 1, 2, 3
‘West Sussex Drinking Song’ (Belloc) 1
Westminster Gazette 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Wharton, Edith 1
‘What have I done for you, England, my England?’ (Henley) 1
Whitehead, William 1
Whitelaw, Robert 1, 2
Wilde, Oscar 1, 2
Wilson, Woodrow 1
Woodberry, George Edward 1, 2
‘Woods of Westermain, The’ (Meredith) 1
Woolf, Leonard 1, 2, 3
Woolf, Virginia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
World War I 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and beginnings 1, 2, 3
World War II 1
‘Would God were eating plover’s eggs’ 1
Wyndham, George 1, 2
Yeats, W. B. 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Your Eyes’ 1
Rupert Brooke, 1888.
Hillbrow prep school cricket XI with fathers. Brooke is in the centre of the middle row with his father on his left.
The Brooke family on the steps of School Field.
School Field, Rugby. Rupert’s bedroom window is on the far right at the top.
Rupert being tested on his lines by Jacques Raverat and Dudley Ward.
The cast of The Eumenides with Brooke as Herald (far right).
Noel Olivier.
A picnic party near Byrons pool during the May term of 1908. (Left to right) Frances Darwin, Francis Cornford, Eva Speilman, Margery Olivier, Rupert Brooke.
Rupert on the Cam with a rather intense-looking Dudley Ward (left), Jerry Pinsent paddling and Dorothy Osmaton.
Margery Olivier, Dudley Ward and Rupert at Beech Shade.
Rupert outside Beech Shade, April 1909.
In camp at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River, August 1910. Brooke is engrossed.
Brooke photographed in the garden of the Old Vicarage, Grantchester in the summer of 1911.
Rupert at the Clifford Bridge camp looking decidedly more boyish than his twenty-four years.
Ka and Rupert at Clifford Bridge.
Brooke in April 1913, photographed by Sherril Schell at his flat in St Georges Square, Pimlico, London. Schell felt Brooke wore a ‘spasmodic wistful expression’.
Brooke with fellow poet Duncan Campbell Scott in Ottawa.
Sub-Lieutenant Brooke at Blandford Camp.
SS Grantully Castle.
Rupert’s grave on Skyros.
The plaque in Rugby School chapel.
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First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Mainstream Publishing Company Ltd
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