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An Essay on Flecker
1937308243Corvinus Press 1937. No. 20 of 30 copies on J.B. Green unsized paper edition of 32. 1 vols. 4to. White linen t.e.g. others untrimmed. Fine. No. 20 of 30 copies on J.B. Green unsized paper edition of 32. 1 vols. 4to. Poet and diplomat James Elroy Flecker 1884-1915 burned bright and briefly. He joined the diplomatic service in 1908 trained for two years and was posted to Constantinople in 1910 "but in September a slight fever was diagnosed as tuberculosis and he returned to England to a sanatorium. He pronounced himself cured and . went back to Constantinople in March 1911 to be transferred in April to Beirut. Flecker was not a very efficient vice-consul" ODNB. His first formal collection of verse The Bridge of Fire was published in 1907 and The Golden Journey to Samarkand was published in 1913. He died in Switzerland aged thirty-one.<br /> Lawrence knew Flecker in Beirut before the war. "Flecker probably introduced Lawrence to contemporary poetry" wrote Wilson in his introduction to Minorities 1971. <br /> According to O'Brien An Essay on Flecker was "written in 1925 with the intention of publication in a periodical and did not appear in print until 1937". O'Brien A198; Ridler p. 58 #41 [Corvinus Press unknown
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