The collected poems of James Elroy Flecker

by James Elroy Flecker

One of five hundred numbered copies. Bound in the publisher's original light yellow cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Uncut. Internally clean and bright. Light rubbing to the boards.

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

First published December 1, 1949

About the author

James Elroy Flecker was an English poet, novelist and playwright.

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

An obscure but brilliant poet famous for his inspirational lines embracing adventure and travel into the unknown. His verse has inspired many "pilgrims" who wander not because the are lost!

[Pat Cummings · Rating 4 out of 5]

Flecker's poetic prose is lovely, but the way this edition is formated makes it clear it was scanned, OCR'd, and searched not-too-diligently for typos. Unless you put the text at the scanned size, lines end all over the place. (And no, it's not poem line-endings—the same thing thing happens in the Introduction and narrative text. Besides, no poet except perhaps e.e. cummings ends a line on a "soft" hyphen that once broke a word in the printed text.)

I had much better luck going online to find Flecker's work at various Web sites, once I had identified the poems I wanted to read. The Web sites get the 5-star ratings.

[Avi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed The Ballad of Zacho, To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence, and The Town Without a Market.