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Flecker, (Herman) James Elroy (1884–1915)| English poet. During a career in the consular service, he wrote several volumes of lyrical romantic verse, including The Bridge of Fire (1907), Forty-two Poems (1911), The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913), and The Old Ships (1915). |
| He also wrote a novel, The King of Alsander (1914), and two dramas, Hassan (1922), performed in 1923 with incidental music by Delius, and Don Juan (1925). He followed the objective methods of the contemporary French poets of the Parnassian school (see Parnassiens, Les), shunning personal and emotional material. |
| Flecker was born in Lewisham, southeast London, and studied oriental languages at Trinity College, Oxford. Working for the consular service, he went to Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1910 and in 1911 to Smyrna (Izmir). In 1913, in an attempt to cure tuberculosis, he went to Switzerland but died there. |
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