| Timeline |
| 1887 |
Born at Rugby 3 August |
| 1905 |
Wins a prize for poem The Bastille |
| 1906 |
Goes to King's College, Cambridge |
| 1908 |
Elected to the Apostles, an elite society of intellectuals and aesthetes |
| 1909 |
Becomes a full member of the Fabian Society |
| 1909 |
First poems published |
| 1909 |
Spends time travelling Europe, spends some time studying in Germany |
| 1910 |
Spends time during the summer of 1910 in Hampshire and Dorset campaigning for the reform of the Poor Law |
| 1911 |
Poems published |
| 1911 |
Receives a fellowship at King's College |
| 1912 |
Compiles an anthology entitled Georgian Poetry, 1911-12, with Edward Marsh. |
| 1912 |
Leaves England and travels in France and Germany |
| 1913 |
Awarded a Fellowship at King's College |
| 1913 |
Experiences mental breakdown |
| 1913 |
Travels through U.S. and Canada on way to South Seas |
| 1914 |
At the outbreak of World War I enlists in the Royal Naval Division |
| 1915 |
1914 and Other Poems published |
| 1915 |
Dies of blood poisoning from a mosquito bite while en route to Gallipoli with the Navy, on Easter Sunday. He was buried on the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea. |
| 1916 |
Letters From America, a series of essays about his impressions during his travels, is published |
