What should we think of Rupert Brooke? He seemed to expect very little.
But there were many reasons why he might have expected to be remembered for much more. It is hard for us, a century on, to appreciate the impact of Brooke’s death on the nation in 1915. His Poems 1911 had been popular, and established him as a promising young poet, but that does not seem sufficient to merit the outpouring of grief, explosion of hero worship, fascination with his work, and the rise of a personality cult which continued for years after his death.
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