James Elroy Flecker (November 5 1884- January 3 1915) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.
He was born in London, and educated at Dean Close school, where his father was headmaster, and Uppingham School. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Oxford he was greatly influenced by the last flowering of the Aesthetic movement there, under John Addington Symonds. From 1910 he was in the consular service, in the Eastern Mediterranean. He met Helle Skiadaressi in Athens, and married her in 1911. His most widely known poem is "To a poet a thousand years hence"
He died of tuberculosis in Davos, Switzerland.
Works
- The Bridge of Fire (1907) poems
- The Last Generation: A Story of the Future (1908) novel
- The Grecians (1910)
- Thirty-Six Poems (1910)
- Forty-Two Poems (1911) eBook
- The Scholars' Italian Book. (1911)
- The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) poems
- The King of Alsander (1914) novel
- The Old Ships (1915) poems
- Collected Poems (1916)
- Collected Prose (1920)
- Hassan (1922) verse drama
- Don Juan (1925) verse drama
- The Letters of J.E. Flecker to Frank Savery (1926)
- Some Letters from Abroad of James Elroy Flecker (1930)
References
- James Elroy Flecker (1922) by Douglas Goldring
- An Essay on Flecker (1937) by T. E. Lawrence
- No Golden Journey: A Biography of James Elroy Flecker (1973) by John Sherwood
- James Elroy Flecker (1976) by John M. Munro