The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker

by James Elroy Flecker, John Squire

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Genres: Poetry

324 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1949

About the author

James Elroy Flecker was an English poet, novelist and playwright.

Reviews

[Philip]

An obscure but brilliant poet famous for his inspirational lines embracing adventure and travel into the unknown. His verse has inspired many "pilgrims" who wander not because the are lost!

[Pat Cummings]

Flecker's poetic prose is lovely, but the way this edition is formated makes it clear it was scanned, OCR'd, and searched not-too-diligently for typos. Unless you put the text at the scanned size, lines end all over the place. (And no, it's not poem line-endings—the same thing thing happens in the Introduction and narrative text. Besides, no poet except perhaps e.e. cummings ends a line on a "soft" hyphen that once broke a word in the printed text.)

I had much better luck going online to find Flecker's work at various Web sites, once I had identified the poems I wanted to read. The Web sites get the 5-star ratings.

[Avi]

I enjoyed The Ballad of Zacho, To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence, and The Town Without a Market.