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Hassan - “Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty like the hindquarters of an elephant”

James Elroy Flecker

Publisher: Stage Door

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James Elroy Flecker was born on November 5th 1884 in London.  He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where his father was headmaster, and Uppingham School then on to Trinity College, Oxford, and Caius College, Cambridge.  At Oxford he was much influenced by the vestiges of the Aesthetic movement there.  In 1910 he was in the consular service, in the Eastern Mediterranean. On a ship to Athens he met Helle Skiadaressi and married her in 1911.  Perhaps his best known work is "To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence".   Here we publish his five act play Hassan The Story Of Hassan Of Bagdad And How He Came To Make The Golden Journey To Samarkand. Tragically James was to die at age 30 on January 3rd 1915, in Davos, Switzerland of tuberculosis.  An immense loss to English Poetry – he had already been measured against the work of Keats.
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