Soldier

By Rupert Brooke · Running time 0:26:07 · Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.

About this book

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself, died the following year on his way to a battle at Gallipoli. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 8th, 2009.

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