About
Poet known for "The Soldier" and other war-themed sonnets. He was associated with several turn-of-the-century literary groups, including the Dymock poets and the Bloomsbury group.
Before Fame
He attended King's College, Cambridge, where he founded the Marlowe Society dramatic club.
Trivia
He died from sepsis as the result of an infected mosquito bite.
Family Life
He was bisexual, though this fact was edited out of his life story by his first biographer.
Associated With
He was described by Irish poet William Butler Yeats as "the handsomest young man in England."
