James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) was a gifted British poet of the Parnassian school and a consular official in the Levant, whose lush Orientalist verse, The Golden Journey to Samarkand, and posthumously staged play Hassan carry a strong current of the fantastic and the legendary. Tuberculosis killed him at thirty; his romantic, exotic imagination left a lasting mark on the dream of ‘the East’ in English letters.