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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1955Vol. XXV, No. 9

In Memory of Rupert

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

Brooke

ON the eve of the Gallipoli Campaign, 40 years ago, died Rupert Brooke, who has been described as England’s most gifted lyric poet at the outbreak of World War I. Although only 27 at his death, he was already something of a legend.

He is remembered yet in Tahiti and other parts of the South Seas which he visited about 18 months before his death —although his poems are perhaps not as well remembered as they might be.

A long article about Brooke will appear in the May issue of PIM.