Who is James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker (5 November 1884 – 3 January 1915) was a British novelist and playwright. As a poet, he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.

Biography

Herman Elroy Flecker was born on 5 November 1884 in Lewisham, London, to William Herman Flecker (d. 1941), headmaster of Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and his wife Sarah. His much younger brother was the educationalist Henry Lael Oswald Flecker (1896–1958), who became Headmaster of Christ's Hospital.Flecker later chose to use the first name "James", either because he disliked the name "Herman" or to avoid confusion with his father. "Roy", as his family called him. was educated at Dean Close School, and then at Uppingham. He subsequently studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and at Gonville and Caius Co...
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James Elroy Flecker Poems

• Litany To Satan (from Baudelaire.)
  O grandest of the Angels, and most wise,
  O fallen God, fate-driven from the skies,
  Satan, at last take pity on our pain.
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• The Ballad Of Zacho
  (a Greek Legend.)
  
  
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• The Dying Patriot
  Day breaks on England down the Kentish hills,
  Singing in the silence of the meadow-footing rills,
  Day of my dreams, O day!
  I saw them march from Dover, long ago, ...
• Santorin
  (A Legend of the ëgean)
  
  'Who are you, Sea Lady,
  And where in the seas are we? ...
• The Old Ships
  I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep
  Beyond the village which men still call Tyre,
  With leaden age o'ercargoed, dipping deep
  For Famagusta and the hidden sun ...

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Comments about James Elroy Flecker

• Herebabymika: since i can never see your face, and never shake you by the hand, i send my soul through time and space, to greet you. you will understand. (james elroy flecker)
• Patbrdh: am on fire with that soft sound you make, in uttering my name. james elroy flecker
• Krizosusanna: what would ye, ladies? it was ever thus: men are unwise and curiously planned, they have their dreams and do not think of us. - james elroy flecker, the golden journey to samarkand.
• Hopesteffen: between the pedestals of night and morning between red death and radiant desire with not one sound of triumph or of warning stands the great sentry on the bridge of fire - james elroy flecker, the bridge of fire
• Jo_history: happy new week ! 'give all thy day to dreaming and all thy night to sleep: let not ambition's tyger devour contentment's sheep !' james elroy flecker

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