Poem of the week: Heaven | Poetry
Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryPoem of the week: HeavenThis week, Rupert Brooke's Heaven, a piece of fishy satire that supersedes the Edwardian poet's military pretensionsRupert Brooke was still an apprentice poet in 1915 when he died, aged 28, of blood poisoning, having never seen the military action he had romanticised in the five sonnets that culminate in The Soldier. He had worked devotedly to perfect his writing since his schooldays, but the various strands of his talent were never brought together, and his self-dramatising tendencies remained like a lingering adolescence.
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