Educated at Oxford and Cambridge, Flecker entered the Consular service and went to Constantinople in 1910. In 1911 he married and went to Beirut as vice consul. His friends included Rupert Brooke and T.E. Lawrence, with whom he had become acquainted while in the Middle East. Suffering from tuberculosis, Flecker went to Switzerland in 1913 for recuperation, but sadly died at the age of only 30 in 1915. His first book of poetry, The Bridge of Fire, appeared in 1908 while he was still at Caius College, Cambridge. In 1910, he published Thirty-Six Poems and followed in 1911 with Forty-Two Poems, both of which won critical acclaim. His other works include The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913), The King of Alsander (1914), The Old Ships (1915), Hassan (1922) and Don Juan (1925), the latter two of which were published posthumously.
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