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    James Elroy Flecker

    British poet

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

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    Herman Elroy Flecker was born on 5 November in Lewisham, London, to William Herman Flecker, headmaster of Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and his wife Sarah.[1] His much younger brother was the educationalist Henry Lael Oswald Flecker, who became Headmaster of Christ's Hospital.[2]

    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 College, Cambridge. While at Oxford he was greatly influenced by the last flowering of the Aesthetic movement there under John Addington Symonds, and became a close friend of t

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    James Elroy Flecker, English poet, was born in London on November 5, His death in at the age of thirty was “unquestionably the greatest premature loss that English literature has suffered since the death of Keats” (Macdonald, ). The eldest son of the Rev. W.H. Flecker, Headmaster of Dean Close School, Flecker attended Trinity College, Oxford, and also Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied oriental languages in preparation for a consular career. From to he held a series of minor consular posts in Constantinople, Smyrna, and Beirut, and these appointments reinforced his life-long love for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Flecker’s health was not robust (he had been diagnosed with tuberculosis in shortly after he entered the consular service) and he was forced to take frequent leaves of absence from his posts, sometimes to return to England and sometimes to visit sanatoria in Switzerland. He died in Davos, Switzerland, on January 3, , and

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    Poet and playwright James Elroy Flecker was born in in Lewisham, London, and went to school in Cheltenham where his father worked as a headmaster. His verses were greatly influenced by the French style Parnassism which grew out of the positivist movement of the early 19th century and, despite his short life, he wrote a number of collections the most memorable being The Golden Journey to Samarkand.

    Between and he attended both Oxford and Cambridge where he published the first of his books, The Bridge of Fire, in Whilst attending Oxford, Flecker was influenced by the last moments of the aesthetic movement and formed a close relationship with the classical art historian John Beazley who was professor of archaeology at the university.

    When he left Oxford, Flecker went into the consular service and traveled for a while in the Mediterranean where he met his future wife Helle Skiadaressi on a boat to Greece. In he published the collection Thirty-Six Poems and a year later followed

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