Talk:Rupert Brooke

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Hard to believe no one has entered anything here before now. Anyway, I'm thinking the only real difference between Rupert Brooke and someone like Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen is that he never got the reality check the others did. Or is that a rather facile point that has been made many times before? --Cranston Lamont 15:31, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

"What if's" are very dangerous. We can't know what he would have done so making assumptions we can't support is a mistake in an encyclopedia. Alci12 23:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

That's what talk pages are for. -- Cranston Lamont 21:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English LGBT

I think it would be wise to add Brooke to that category. He was clearly what we would call "bisexual" today. V. Joe 20:31, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Although there's no reference to it in the text itself (which I am unwilling to modify) it's true and deserves to be left in. No expert would dispute the label. 69.216.116.111 00:58, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I too have always accepted his bisexuality as a given, and am surprised the article has no mention of it. Does no one have a quotable source? BrainyBabe (talk) 05:35, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ka Cox

This is associated with the following text from the main article "...resulting in the breakdown of his long relationship with Ka Cox.", it could be just my own naiveté, but I researched the name "Ka Cox" and could not verify who this person is. Who is "Ka Cox"? Is this truly a person?Sea Wolf (talk) 02:16, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

According to the ODNB "Katherine (Ka) Laird Cox (1887–1938)", possibly had a still-born son by Brooke in 1912. I've tried to spell this out in the article. David Underdown (talk) 10:07, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank-you for the edification!!!Sea Wolf (talk) 07:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)