James elroy flecker biography of michael

  • Poet and playwright James Elroy Flecker was born in in Lewisham, London, and went to school in Cheltenham where his father worked as a headmaster.
  • Flecker was born in London in , the son of an English Christian clergyman and a Jewish mother.
  • Roses and Rain: A Biography of James Elroy Flecker (White Paper Covered Boards).

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    THE LAST GENERATION

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    BY THE SAME AUTHOR

    THE BRIDGE OF FIRE

    A BOOK OF POEMS CONTAINING THE
    BALLAD OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH
    AND THE TWIN SONNETS
    OF BATHROLAIRE

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    THE
    LAST GENERATION

    A STORY OF THE FUTURE

    BY
    JAMES ELROY FLECKER

    El hombre es el rey de la creació

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    Michael L. Sikorski

    Go as a pilgrim and seek out danger

    far from the comfort

    and the well-lit avenues of life.

      Pit your every soul against the unknown

    and seek stimulation in the comfort of the brave.

       Experience cold, hunger, eat and thirst

    and survive to see another challenge and another dawn.

       Only then will you be at peace with yourself

    and be able to know and say,

      "I look down at the farthest side of the mountain,

    fulfilled an understanding all,

    and truly content that

    I lived a full life and one

    that was my own choice."

     

             James Elroy Flecker from the poem play Hassan.

     

    If there was a word that best described the long teaching career of Michael L. Sikorski, we might choose "remarkable."  Of the thousands of ung men he taught at West Catholic High School for Boys, and some young women from Bishop Shanahan and Bishop Conwell in later years, he had a demon

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    One hundred years ago James Elroy Flecker published a slim volume of verse from the obscure imprint of Max Goschen.  The title poem of &#;The Golden Journey to Samarkand&#; caught all the yearning for far-away adventure that so often comes to a people living on a grey island on the edge of the world. Flecker took a fabled city on the ancient Silk Road to the East and made it into a talisman for the wondrous and the exotic:

                We travel not for trafficking alone:

                By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned:

                For lust of knowing what should not be known

                We make the golden journey to Samarkand.

                Flecker also wrote a handful of other lyric poems

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