article_snippet.sent: Poet Rupert Brooke had a string of short-lived relationships with various women before Poet Rupert Brooke died aged 27 in April 1915 .
article_snippet.sent: Poet Rupert Brooke has long had a reputation as a 'young Apollo', a symbol of innocent youth who was cut down in Poet Rupert Brooke prime during the senseless slaughter of the First World War.
article_snippet.sent: Brooke, who died 100 years ago today at the age of just 27, became a semi-legendary figure thanks to a semi-legendary figure early death and a semi-legendary figure popular poems such as The Soldier.
article_snippet.sent: Popular: Brooke became one of Britain's best-loved poets after his premature death .
article_snippet.sent: Despite the recent revelations, Brooke has retained his image as a 'young Apollo' cut down in his prime, whose poems encapsulate typically English scenes.
article_snippet.sent: his poem The Soldier, featuring the line 'there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England', was immensely popular during the First World War, and made even more poignant when Brooke died while on active service on April 23, 1915.
article_snippet.sent: Peter Jones, the librarian at King's, said: 'It is hard to realise today just how significant Brooke's impact was 100 years ago. '
article_snippet.sent: Just after his death, Brooke's close friend and patron Eddie Marsh published 1914 and Other Poems. '
article_snippet.sent: his added: 'We now know much more about Brooke as a person and his is certainly more interesting and, in some ways more difficult, than the heroic image portrayed at the time of his death. '
article_snippet.sent: Lorna Beckett, chairman of the Rupert Brooke Society, said: 'his was an interesting, complex and likeable person who is still suffering from the hostile backlash brought about by the "young Apollo" myth created straight after his death.'
highlights_snippet.sent: The poet has a reputation as a 'young Apollo' who died tragically young .
  