Editing Rupert Brooke (section)

=== Literary influences ===
In the afterword of his ''Collected Poems'' (1919), [[Lord Alfred Douglas]] wrote: "... never before in the history of English literature has poetry sunk so low. When a nation ... can seriously lash itself into enthusiasm over the puerile crudities (when they are nothing worse) of a Rupert Brooke, it simply means that poetry is despised and dishonoured and that sane criticism is dead or moribund."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Douglas |first1=Alfred Bruce |url=https://archive.org/details/collectedpoemsof00doug/page/116/mode/2up |title=The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas |date=1919 |publisher=Martin Secker |location=London |page=117}}</ref>

American adventurer [[Richard Halliburton]] made preparations for writing a biography of Brooke but died before he could.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Prince |first1=Cathryn |title=American Daredevil: The Extraordinary Life of Richard Halliburton, the Worlds First Celebrity Travel Writer |publisher=Chicago University |year=2016 |isbn=9781613731598}}</ref> Halliburton's notes were used by Arthur Springer to write ''Red Wine of Youth: A Biography of Rupert Brooke'' (1921).<ref>[http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/halliburton.html#1b Richard Halliburton Papers: Correspondence] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415130327/http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/halliburton.html|date=15 April 2005}}, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Accessed online 2 January 2008.  Gerry Max, ''Horizon Chasers'', p. 12 et passim. Also Jonathan Root, ''Halliburton--The Magnificent Myth'', p. 70 et passim</ref> Brooke was an inspiration to Canadian fighter pilot [[John Gillespie Magee Jr.]], known for his poems "Sonnet to Rupert Brooke" (1938) and "[[High Flight]]" (1941). Brooke also appears as a minor character in [[A. S. Byatt]]'s novel ''[[The Children's Book]]'' (2009).