Flecker, James Elroy.

The collected poems of James Elroy Flecker. Edited, with an introduction, by J.C. Squire.

Thirteenth Impression. London, Martin Secker, 1929. 20 cm. XXXI, 248 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, in black and white. Original Hardcover with spinelabel. Very good condition with signs of external wear. Some foxing to the interior. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

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. Born on 5 November 1884 in Lewisham, London, and baptised Herman Elroy Flecker, 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, Cheltenham, where his father was the headmaster, and later at Uppingham School. He 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 the classicist and art historian John Beazley.
From 1910 Flecker worked in the consular service in the Eastern Mediterranean. On a ship to Athens he met Helle Skiadaressi, and in 1911 he married her.
Flecker died on 3 January 1915, of tuberculosis, in Davos, Switzerland. His death at the age of thirty was described at the time as “unquestionably the greatest premature loss that English literature has suffered since the death of Keats”. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Erik Haugaard Collection · Poetry – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 44729AB

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