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“It is true that the aim of poetry is to create beauty, but this beauty must be shaped by technique.”

Emphasizing the essential role of craftsmanship in poetic expression · Essay, The Gnostics

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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