Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.
F. S. Flint
James Elroy Flecker
A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
Frank Stuart Flint was born on December 19, 1885, in Islington, London, into circumstances that would have crushed a lesser spirit but instead forged one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures in early twentieth-century English literature. He died on February 28, 1960, leaving behind a legacy that Ford Madox Ford would describe as that of "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the…
“To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.”
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…
“It is true that the aim of poetry is to create beauty, but this beauty must be shaped by technique.”
About 9 km separate Islington, London, England from Deptford, London, England. Both have ground in London.
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
F. S. Flint: islington, ford madox ford, in the net of the stars, imagist movement, unrhymed cadence, new age journal, t.e. hulme, cadences. James Elroy Flecker: lewisham, tuberculosis, the bridge of fire, thirty-six poems, the golden journey to samarkand, hassan, hellé skiadaressi, parnassian.
The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
F. S. Flint: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality. James Elroy Flecker: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder.
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