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Rupert Brooke

1887 - 1915

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Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rupert Brooke has received more than 1,377,573 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Rupert Brooke is the 3,203rd most popular writer (down from 2,649th in 2019), the 2,387th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,012th in 2019) and the 276th most popular British Writer.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rupert Brooke ranks 3,203 out of 5,755. Before him are Juan Fernández de Heredia, Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Olha Kobylianska, Cristina Peri Rossi, Arctinus of Miletus, and Evgeny Schwartz. After him are Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Alexander Bestuzhev, Wallace Stevens, Zülfü Livaneli, Zacharias Werner, and Bruce Sterling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Rupert Brooke ranks 144. Before him are Walther Wever, Hector Hodler, Prince Gustav of Denmark, Anthony van Hoboken, Omer Nishani, and Salama Moussa. After him are Pyotr Nesterov, Annette Kellermann, L. S. Lowry, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, and August Kork. Among people deceased in 1915, Rupert Brooke ranks 65. Before him are Eugène Jansson, Fanny Crosby, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Serafino Vannutelli, Elbert Hubbard, and Ruben Sevak. After him are Stojan Novaković, Louis Pergaud, Emil Rathenau, Johann Joseph Abert, Richard Lydekker, and Luigi Capuana.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rupert Brooke ranks 2,387 out of 7,765. Before him are Nevil Shute (1899), Al Stewart (1945), John Terry (1980), Stephen Hendry (1969), James Braid (1795), and Joss Ackland (1928). After him are Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar (1269), John Pell (1611), Bob Anderson (1931), Peter Pears (1910), Terence Fisher (1904), and Michael Green (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Rupert Brooke ranks 276. Before him are Branwell Brontë (1817), Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), Lytton Strachey (1880), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Walter Map (1140), and Nevil Shute (1899). After him are Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805), Josephine Tey (1896), Peter Cheyney (1896), William Langland (1332), Nancy Mitford (1904), and William Cowper (1731).

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