“The Parnassian school was a classical reaction against the sentimentalism of the Romantics.”
About 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…