FLECKER, JAMES ELROY

1884–1915, English poet and playwright. From 1910–13 he served in the diplomatic corps. A preoccupation with the exotic is revealed in his verse, particularly in The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913). His two plays, Hassan (pub. 1922) and Don Juan (pub. 1925), were written in verse. In 1923–24, Hassan was lavishly and successfully produced in London.

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James Kitchener Davies
Book by M. Wynn Thomas; University of Wales Press, 2002
Subjects: Authors, Welsh--20th Century--Biography, Davies, James Kitchener--1902-1952
...carefully refrained from acknowledging the longstanding interest of English dramatists - from Phillips, Bottomley and Flecker to Auden, MacNeice, Charles Williams and Dorothy L. Sayers - in sponsoring the return of poetry to the modern theatre...
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The Triple Stream: Four Centuries of English, French, and German Literature, 1531-1930
Book by Antony Brett-James; Bowes & Bowes, 1954
Subjects: Literature, Modern--Outlines, Syllabi, Etc
...Literature 1531-1930 ANTONY BRETT-JAMES PHILADELPHIA DUFOUR EDITIONS 1954 Copyright...DIED ENGLISH 1666 Shirley, James Grace Abounding -- Bunyan...Racine, Jean 1700 Thompson, James Dryden, John The Way of the World...
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In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in the English & American Imagination
Book by David Roessel; Oxford University Press, 2003
...Cummings Trust. Copyright 1976 by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904 1962...Collected Poems of Lawrence Durrell, edited by James Brigham, Faber and Faber. Copyright...of David Higham Associates, Limited. James Merrill excerpts from After Greece and...
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Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors
Book by Stanley J. Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Wilbur C. Hadden; H.W. Wilson, 1933
Subjects: Authors, Biography--Dictionaries
...Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were published in 1889, the...out his theory of history," explains James Truslow Adams, his biographer, " Adams...Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison nine volumes 1889-91; Memoirs...
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Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry
Book by A. P. Wavell; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1945
Subjects: English Poetry--Collections, Poetry
...SONG OF THE SARACENS -- James Elroy Flecker 101...THE OLD SHIPS -- James Elroy Flecker 171...FROM HASSAN -- James Elroy Flecker 198...
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journal articles on: Flecker James Elroy  - 4 results

 
 
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The Caspian Oil and Gas Basin: A New Source of Wealth?
Journal article by George Lenczowski; Middle East Policy, Vol. 5, 1997
Subjects: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East, Middle East--Foreign Relations--United States, Middle East--Politics And Government--1979-, United States--Foreign Relations--Middle East
...historical- romantic approach are Hassan, a play; The Golden Journey to Samarkand, a poem, both by James Elroy Flecker , and The Golden Road to Samarkand by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Caspian Basin oil and gas agreements, partly...
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In Memoriam: A Lecture on Natural Law
Journal article by Russell Kirk; Policy Review, 1994
Subjects: Natural law--Interpretation and construction
...bogle to make children behave tolerably well, a fantasy. From the adolescence the childhood of the race. Poets, James Elroy Flecker says, are those who swear that Beauty lives although lilies die; and the natural laws is the poetry of political...
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Interview with Andrew Taylor
Journal article by John Kinsella; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 21, 2004
Subjects: Authors--Interviews, Taylor, Andrew--Interviews, Writers--Interviews
...pay tribute to it as well. It had poems like Vachel Lindsays in there with that sort of American Negro rhythm, James Elroy Flecker and his Golden City of Samarkand, do you know that? Then there was The Highwayman, who came riding, riding, riding...
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Under the Sign of Donne
Journal article by Judith Scherer Herz; Criticism, Vol. 43, 2001
Subjects: Authors, English--Influence, Donne, John--Influence, English poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...applied to his acquaintance, Rupert Brooke. It was James Elroy Flecker who called Brooke "our Donne redivivus" in a review...Finnegans Wake. (4.) Arthur Power, Conversations with James Joyce, ed. Clive Hart (New York: Barnes Noble Books...


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magazine articles on: Flecker James Elroy  - 5 results

 
 
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The Golden Journey to Samarkand: John Lawton Visits the Fabled Cities of the Silk Road
Magazine article by John Lawton; History Today, Vol. 58, May 2008
Subjects: Cities and towns--Description and travel, Samarkand, Uzbekistan--Description and travel
...Silk Road. by John Lawton For the lust of knowing what should not be known, wrote British poet-diplomat James Elroy Flecker, we make the Golden Journey ... to divine Bukhara and happy Samarkand. Marlowe, Milton and Keats wrote about these...
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Poetry and the Pity of War
Magazine article by Randle Manwaring; Contemporary Review, Vol. 273, November 1998
Subjects: Poets--Works, War poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the spirit of the times was one of optimism and ease, heroism and patriotism, exemplified in The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) who died, not as a result of the war but of tuberculosis in a Swiss sanatorium. Sleep not my country...
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Is Diplomacy Dead?
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 288, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Diplomacy--Political aspects, Diplomats--Political activity
...the Levant Consular Service, for example, included stars like the orientalist Sir Richard Burton and the poet James Elroy Flecker. When, after the Second World War, our colonies became independent the Commonwealth Relations and Colonial Office...
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England in Poetry
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Spring 2007
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, English poets--Works
...the people they administered. Some succumbed wholly to the spell of the East, drawn by the fascination felt by James Elroy Flecker for: ... the great markets by the sea shut fast All that calm Sunday that goes on...
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In Place: In Cherishing the Particular against a Corrosive Tide of Globalization, Architects Can Make the World a Better Place
Magazine article by Peter Davey; The Architectural Review, Vol. 217, January 2005
Subjects: Architects--Practice, Architects--Services, Architecture--Forecasts and trends
...urged many years ago that we must make places, not spaces. He was right. 1 The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker (1913). 2 The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895); The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909).


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newspaper articles on: Flecker James Elroy  - 3 results

 
 
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My Cotswolds Affair; from the Queen of the Aga Saga, a Very Personal Portrait of the Quintessentially English Holiday Playground That Stirs Her Passions like No Other
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 25, 2005
...countryside. I read all the local poets - Ivor Gurney, James Elroy Flecker, Laurie Lee - collected photographs, wrote embarrassing...HERE: OUR SUPERB TRAVEL AND LEISURE SECTION Thailand in James Bonds footsteps More than an airport - the delights...
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Reviews: Poignant Night; Jacqueline Du Pre Tribute Symphony Hall
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 29, 2005
Subjects: Du Pre, Jacqueline
...The offerings here included the premiere of Edward Watsons noble and dignified Meditation, incorporating lines by James Elroy Flecker delivered with moving simplicity by Lyndon Jenkins. Appropriately at this Holocaust remembrance-tide, we also...
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African Adventurer Stanley's Gold Watch Sold for Four Times Asking Price
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 27, 2007
...Essay on Flecker turned out to be the priciest single item in his lot after it sold for pounds 4,375. The poet James Elroy Flecker was an author and British Vice-Consul in Beirut, where he befriended Lawrence in the pre-war years. Christies said...


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encyclopedia articles on: Flecker James Elroy  - 1 result

 
 
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Flecker, James Elroy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FLECKER, JAMES ELROY 1884 1915, English poet and playwright. From 1910 13 he served in the diplomatic corps. A preoccupation with the exotic is...


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