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James Elroy Flecker, English poet, was born in London on November 5, His death in at the age of thirty was “unquestionably the greatest premature loss that English literature has suffered since the death of Keats” (Macdonald, ).

The eldest son of the Rev. W.H. Flecker, Headmaster of Dean Close School, Flecker attended Trinity College, Oxford, and also Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied oriental languages in preparation for a consular career.

From to he held a series of minor consular posts in Constantinople, Smyrna, and Beirut, and these appointments reinforced his life-long love for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Flecker’s health was not robust (he had been diagnosed with tuberculosis in shortly after he entered the consular service) and he was forced to take frequent leaves of absence from his posts, sometimes to return to England and sometimes to visit sanatoria in Switzerland.

He died in Davos, Switzerland, on January 3, , and