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“It is not the poet's business to save man's soul, but to make it worth saving.”

Reflecting on the intrinsic artistic purpose of poetry beyond moralizing · Preface, The Golden Journey to Samarkand

About James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker

5 November 1884–3 January 1915

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…

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