Having received an e-mail from a poet in which she discusses the poetry of Rupert Brooke as a formative influence upon her own life and work, I thought I’d share my brief reply to her in which I jot down a few random thoughts about a handful of poets:

We are clearly kindred spirits.
I share your love of poetry, though I seem to have very little time to write it. Alas!
I’ve always admired Brooke’s poetry and wrote something somewhere (I think perhaps in my biography of Belloc) about Belloc’s influence upon him and it, i.e. the poet and his verse.
More acerbic, but better as verse, me judice, is the poetry of two other war poets, Sassoon and Owen, which I presume that you know. If you don’t know Sassoon’s later poetry, i.e. that which he wrote in old age, following his conversion to Catholicism, you should check it out. I would particularly recommend his “Lenten Illuminations”.
As for Francis Thompson, you really do need to discover him. The poem for which he is best known is “The Hound of Heaven”, a veritable classic of modern Christian verse. I also love his poem “To a Snowflake”.