James Elroy Flecker

James Bridges (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

Born 5 Nov 1884
Died 3 Jan 1915
Activity 1907-1915

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Born in England
Active in England

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Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet

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Flecker's Works

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James Elroy Flecker was born in November 1884, the eldest son of the Rev. W. H. Flecker. Flecker was educated at both Dean Close (where his father would become headmaster) and Uppingham, and in 1902 entered Trinity College, Oxford. A period of travel followed. Enrolling in the Consular Service, he went to Constantinople in 1910, and in 1911, married Helle Skiadaressi who he met in Athens.

At this time, Flecker was establishing a reputation as a poet, and several of his pieces were included in Edward Marsh's first two Georgian Poetry anthologies, marking him as one of the new Georgians. An acquaintance of Rupert Brooke, he shares a commemoration with that poet in the opening pages of Georgian Poetry II (1915), by which time both he and Brooke were dead.

At this time, Flecker was…

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Citation: Bridges, James. "James Elroy Flecker". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 April 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4916, accessed 23 November 2024.]