The story of James Elroy Flecker is one of brilliant promise cut tragically short, of a poet who sought to recapture the lush exoticism and sensuous beauty of the Romantics in an age growing increasingly modernist and austere. Born Herman Elroy Flecker on November 5, 1884, in Lewisham, London, he would live only thirty years before tuberculosis claimed him, yet in that brief span he created a body of work that contin…
“The Parnassian school was a classical reaction against the sentimentalism of the Romantics.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Love Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the first surviving child of Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings Keats. Though later admirers often imagined him as the archetypal fragile Romantic poet, set apart from ordinary life by genius and suffering, his origins were practical, urban, and socially modest. His father managed the Swan and Hoop livery stable at Moorgate, owned by Frances’s father, John Jennings. Ke…
“I am certain of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination—What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.”
Neighbourhood:
Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
