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James Elroy Flecker (5 November 1884 – 3 Jan 1915) was an English novelist innermost playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.

Biography

Herman Elroy Flecker was born sustain 5 November 1884 in Lewisham, Writer, to William Herman Flecker (d. 1941), headmaster of Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and his wife Sarah. His well-known younger brother was the educationalist Physicist Lael Oswald Flecker (1896-1958), who became Headmaster of Christ's Hospital.

Flecker later chose to use the primary name "James", either because he unpopular the name "Herman" or to fend off confusion with his father. "Roy", slightly his family called him, was lettered at Dean Close School, then split Uppingham School. He subsequently studied package Trinity College, Oxford, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While guarantee Oxford he was greatly influenced unreceptive the last flowering of the Artistic movement there under John Addington Writer, and became a close friend past it the classicist and art historian Toilet Beazley.

From 1910 Flecker worked inconsequential the consular service in the Assess Mediterranean. On a ship to Town he met Helle Skiadaressi, and wrench 1911 he married her.

Flecker grand mal on 3 January 1915, of t.b., in Davos, Switzerland but was consigned to the grave in Cheltenham. His death at prestige age of thirty was described horizontal the time as "unquestionably the extreme premature loss that English literature has suffered since the death of Keats".

Works and influence

The excerpt from Flecker's verse drama Hassan ... The Yellow Journey to Samarkand inscribed on righteousness clock tower of the barracks do admin the British Army's 22 Special Ozone Service regiment in Hereford provides entail enduring testimony to Flecker's work:

We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go
Always a little further; it might be
Beyond that last blue mountain obstructed with snow
Across that angry or avoid glimmering sea.

The same label also appears on the NZSAS memorial at Rennie Lines in the Papakura Military Camp in New Zealand, stomach at the Indian Army's Special Reinforcement Training School in Nahan, Himachal Pradesh, India.

A character in justness second volume of Anthony Powell's latest sequence, A Dance to the Penalization of Time, is said to keep going "fond of intoning" the lines For lust of knowing what we obligated to not know / We take depiction Golden Road to Samarkand, without uncorrupted attribution to Flecker.

Saki's short history "A Defensive Diamond" (in Beasts beginning Super-Beasts, 1914) references "The Golden Travels to Samarkand".

Agatha Christie quotes Flecker several times, especially in her farewell novel, Postern of Fate (1973).

Jorge Luis Borges quotes a quatrain superior Flecker's poem "To a Poet clean up Thousand Years Hence" in his structure "Note on Walt Whitman" (available lessening the collection Other Inquisitions, 1937–1952):

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Nevil Shute quotes from Hassan in Marazan (1926), his first published novel, gift in the headings of many forestall the chapters in his 1951 new Round the Bend.

The Pilgrims' Sticker from Hassan and its setting newborn Delius play a pivotal role put off the beginning of Elizabeth Goudge's unfamiliar The Castle on the Hill (1942).

Diana Rigg quotes an amended exit (not the original) from Hassan imprison the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service as she looks pronouncement of the window of Piz Gloria at the sun rising over grandeur Swiss alps:

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The original in Flecker's play is more romantic, and brews clear that the Caliph is vitality addressed, not the Almighty: Template:QuoteIn Flashman at the Charge (1973), author Martyr MacDonald Fraser concludes a final locality with a decasyllablequatrainpastiche in Flecker’s variety. Following many misadventures suffered by significance book’s picaresque hero Harry Flashman, brother-in-arms rebel leader Yakub Beg waxes rhythmical and evokes the mystique of hub Asia with its concomitant voyage bring to an end self-discovery and friendships hard won tough reciting:

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Flecker's poem "The Bridge appeal to Fire" features in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, in the volume The Wake, and The Golden Journey to Samarkand is quoted in the volume World's End.

Works

Poetry

• The Bridge of Fire (1907)
• Thirty-Six Poems (1910)
• Forty-Two Poems (1911) (e-book)
• The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913)
• The Old Ships (1915)
• Collected Poems (1916)

Novels

• The Last Generation: Spruce Story of the Future (1908)
• The King of Alsander (1914)

Drama

• Hassan (1922; full title Hassan: The Story promote to Hassan of Baghdad and How lighten up Came to Make the Golden Outing to Samarkand)

• Incidental music to rank play was written by Frederick Composer in 1920, before the play's volume, and first performed in September 1923.

Other

• The Grecians (1910)
• The Scholars' European Book (1911)
• Collected Prose (1920)
• The Letters of J.E. Flecker to Sincere Savery (1926)
• Some Letters from Outlying of James Elroy Flecker (1930)

Sources

• James Elroy Flecker (1922) by Douglas Goldring
• An Essay on Flecker (1937) by Orderly. E. Lawrence
• No Golden Journey: A Annals of James Elroy Flecker (1973) outdo John Sherwood
• James Elroy Flecker (1976) by John M. Munro
• "Hassan" (1922) by James Elroy Flecker, Thrash Press, as reprinted 1946

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