Collected Prose

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Most remarkable for his verse, Collected Prose written by James Elroy Flecker is a set of his peculiar stories consisting of The Last Generation – a concise sci-fi novel, brief outlines, a dialogue, and many critical studies.

The collection contains: The Last Generation; N’Jawk; Pentheus; Mansur; Candilli; The ‘Bus in Stamboul; Translations from the Gulistan; Forgotten Warfare; Philanthropists; The Grecians: Dramatic reading. Preface; I The Three Englishmen; The Grecians II: The Aim of Education; The Grecians III: Physical Training; The Grecians IV: Technical Training; The Grecians V: The Grecians, or True Education; John Davidson: Realist; John Davidson; The New Poetry and Mr. Housman’s “Shropshire Lad”; Two Critics of Poetry; Preface to The Golden Journey of Samarkand; The Public as Art Critic; and Paul Fort, The Prince of Poets.

James Elroy Flecker was a British poet, author and dramatist. As a poet, he was much enthused by the Parnassian poets. Born in Lewisham, London, and his full name was Herman Elroy Flecker, Flecker then decided to use the first name, James, either because he detested the name Herman or to shun mix-up with his father. Roy, as his family addressed him, studied at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where his father was the dean, and after at Uppingham School. He enrolled at Trinity College, Oxford, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Oxford he was highly motivated by the final pinnacle of the Aesthetic movement there under John Addington Symonds, and became a close confidant of the classicist and art historian John Beazley.

From 1910, he was deployed in the consular service in the Eastern Mediterranean. On his way to Athens he got to know Helle Skiadaressi, and in 1911 they got married.

James died of tuberculosis, in Davos, Switzerland.
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