James Elroy Flecker (November 5, 1884- January 3, 1915) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets. November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain, itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. ...

He was born in London, and educated at Dean Close school, Cheltenham, where his father was headmaster, and Uppingham School. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Oxford he was greatly influenced by the last flowering of the Aesthetic movement there, under John Addington Symonds. From 1910 he was in the consular service, in the Eastern Mediterranean. He met Helle Skiadaressi in Athens, and married her in 1911. His most widely known poem is "To a poet a thousand years hence" Uppingham School is a co-educational English public school in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland. ... College name Trinity College Named after The Holy Trinity Established 1555 Sister College Churchill College President The Hon. ... Full name Gonville and Caius College Motto - Named after Edmund Gonville & John Caius Previous names Gonville Hall (1348), Gonville & Caius (1557) Established 1348 Sister College Brasenose College Master Neil McKendrick Location Trinity St Undergraduates 468 Graduates 291 Homepage Boatclub Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, generally known as Caius (though pronounced... John Addington Symonds was the name of a father and son, both English writers. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα Athína IPA ) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world. ...

He died of tuberculosis in Davos, Switzerland. Tuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... Davos viewed from air Davos is a town in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden, on the Landwasser River. ...

His poem "The Bridge of Fire" is featured in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, in the volume The Wake. Neil Gaiman (November 2004) Neil Richard Gaiman () (November 10, 1960, Portchester, Hampshire) is an English Jewish author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. ... The Sandman was a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics for 75 issues from 1988 until 1996. ... This article is about The Wake, the graphic novel in The Sandman series. ...

Works

• The Bridge of Fire (1907) poems
• The Last Generation: A Story of the Future (1908) novel
• The Grecians (1910)
• Thirty-Six Poems (1910)
• Forty-Two Poems (1911) eBook
• The Scholars' Italian Book. (1911)
• The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) poems
• The King of Alsander (1914) novel
• The Old Ships (1915) poems
• Collected Poems (1916)
• Collected Prose (1920)
• Hassan (1922) verse drama
• Don Juan (1925) verse drama
• The Letters of J.E. Flecker to Frank Savery (1926)
• Some Letters from Abroad of James Elroy Flecker (1930)

References

• James Elroy Flecker (1922) by Douglas Goldring
• An Essay on Flecker (1937) by T. E. Lawrence
• No Golden Journey: A Biography of James Elroy Flecker (1973) by John Sherwood
• James Elroy Flecker (1976) by John M. Munro

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External links

• Works by James Elroy Flecker at Project Gutenberg
• Comment and images relating to Flecker's The Golden Journey ('Road') to Samarkand