Forty-Two Poems

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These 42 poems include: A Collection of Poems; To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence; Riouperoux; The Town without a Market; The Balled of Camden Town; Mignon; Felo de se; Tenebris Interlucentem; Invitation to a Young but Learned Friend . . .; Balled of the Londoner; The First Sonnet of Bathrolaire; The Second Sonnet of Bathrolaire; The Masque of the Magi; The Balled of Hampstead Heath; Litany to Satan; The Translator and the Children; Opportunity; Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities; War Song of the Saracens; Joseph and Mary; No Coward’s Song; A Western Voyage; Fountains; The Welsh Sea; Oxford Canal; Hialmar Speaks to the Raven; The Ballad of the Student in the South; The Queen’s Song; Lord Arnaldos; We that were Friends; My Friend; Ideal; Mary Magdalen; I Rose from Dreamless Hours; Prayer; A Miracle of Bethlehem; Gravis Dulcis Immutabilis; Pillage; The Ballad of Zacho; Pavlovna in London; The Sentimentalist; Don Juan in Hell; and The Ballad of Iskander.

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 referred 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.
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