Selected Poems of James Elroy Flecker

by James Elroy Flecker

“His poetry is alive with colour, light, sound and music…to Flecker, poetry was a combination of acute perception and intellectual and emotional activity and, in order to develop these creative gifts, the poet needed an enthusiasm for the world in every detail – a world that was always ‘passionately interesting’ and filled with human kindness”. So writes Jean Cantlie Stewart in her detailed introduction to this delightful anthology of the poems of James Elroy Flecker. His father had been ordained in the Church of England but Flecker explored the tenets of Islam which informed his later work. He spoke eight modern and ancient languages and also had detailed knowledge of the Orient, in part due to his grandfather having been a schoolmaster in Constantinople, and his having been posted there as Vice Consul. James Elroy Flecker’s life was sadly cut short in 1915, when he died from tuberculosis aged just thirty.

Genres: Poetry

93 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

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

Reviews

[Atticus · Rating 5 out of 5]

More clever, and more influential than I had figured prior to reading him-the man has a real way with rhyme, and, moreover, is shockingly enthralling; I haven't passed through a group of collected/selected poetry so quickly since Emily Dickinson's stunning arrangement.