Collected poems. Edited, with an introd. by J.C. Squire

by James Elroy Flecker

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Genres: Poetry

290 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1949

About the author

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

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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