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Natalie Laverick 13CB Explain the contemporary popularity of Rupert Brooke's sonnets. Rupert Brooke's five sonnets, "Peace", "Safety", "The Rich Dead", "The Dead" and "The Soldier", known collectively as "1914", were immensely popular during the First World War, his poems were reprinted, on average, every eight weeks of its duration. Brooke also received great admiration and respect from his contemporaries both during his time as a pre-war poet and after his death. "The Soldier" was read by Dean Inge from the pulpit of St.Pauls on Easter Sunday 1915, D.H. Lawrence exclaimed: "he was slain by bright Pheobus' shaft . . . it was a real climax of his pose . . . O God, O God; it is all too much of a piece: it is like madness." and Winston Churchill wrote his obituary. Churchill described Brooke's sonnets as "incomparable" and written with "genius". The popularity of Brooke's sonnets was rooted in...

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