Gained considerable reputation as a poet

Elsewhere in the same lists of what has become its most famously poignant number, Wisden reported the death of Sub-Lieutenant Rupert Brooke, who left a corner of an Aegean field forever England by succumbing to sunstroke on Lemnos in April 1915. The almanack scrupulously documented his 1906 Rugby school season of nineteen wickets at 14 before noting his having 'gained considerable reputation as a poet'.

G. Haigh, Stroke of genius (2016), 213