article_snippet: : Brooke wrote celebrated poems such as The Soldier .
article_snippet: The myth paints him as an Edwardian hero and a romantic symbol for a lost generation.
article_snippet: But a new book about Rupert Brooke’s affair with suffragette Phyllis Gardner reveals the shocking truth about the poet a century after him death.
article_snippet: him was a celebrity of him age, lauded by Winston Churchill as among ‘England’s noblest sons’, and described by WB Yeats as ‘the handsomest young man in England’.
article_snippet: But the writer of celebrated poems such as The Soldier is now shown to have been a fierce opponent of women
article_snippet: ’ Brooke was the daughter of eminent archaeologist Ernest Arthur Gardner and it was Brooke mother, an amateur poet who longed to be a member of literary circles, who encouraged the affair.
article_snippet: eminent archaeologist Ernest Arthur Gardner soon became infatuated, writing the poet was:
article_snippet: Brooke was a celebrity of Brooke age, lauded by Winston Churchill as among ‘England’s noblest sons’ Brooke seems to have been awkward and unsure in Brooke feelings but did compose the poem Beauty and Beauty for Brooke.
article_snippet: the poet repressed sexuality has been widely discussed by academics and Gardner writes how Gardner lover, who Gardner described as boring in bed, finally managed to express his opinions on sexuality.
highlights_snippet: Celebrated writer produced renowned war poems including The Soldier .
  
highlights_snippet: A new book also says the poet opposed women's rights movements .
  