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From Tyro to Master - James Elroy Flecker

From Tyro to Master: A Poetic Journey The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker Prepared and presented by Denis Daly Like Shelley and Keats, and several of his wartime contemporaries, JAMES ELROY FLECKER died young. His life came to an end, not on the battlefield, but in a sanatorium in Switzerland on the 3rd of January, 1915, after a long battle with respiratory disease. He was 30 years of age. This presentation contains examples of both his earliest and his latest works and is intended to shows the development of the poet from an unusual precocity to to a quiet maturity. Flecker commenced writing poetry while still at school and later published the following collections: The Bridge of Fire (1907) Thirty-Six Poems (1910) Forty-Two Poems (1911) The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913) The Old Ships (1915) This presentation opens with a selection of Flecker's early verse, including translations (a discipline he continued to practice as a mature poet), the dramatic dialogue Lucretia, and his extensive tribute to Shelley,another poet who died in his prime: Four Translations and Adaptations from Catullus Sirmio Lucretia Song in the Night Glion - Noon Glion - Evening Last Love Fragments of an Ode

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