John Frederick Freeman
John Frederick Freeman (29 January 1880 – 23 September 1929) was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time. He was born in London, and started as an office boy aged 13. He was a close friend of Walter de la Mare from 1907, who lobbied hard with Edward Marsh to get Freeman into the Georgian Poetry series; with eventual success.
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John Frederick Freeman
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- 1880
- Died
- 1929
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- poet · writer · secretary
- Fields
- English-language literature · English poetry
- Honours
- Hawthornden Prize
- Languages
- English
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De la Mare's biographer Theresa Whistler describes him as "tall, gangling, ugly, solemn, punctilious". He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1920 with Poems 1909-1920. His Last Hours was set to music by Ivor Gurney.
• Fifty Poems (1911) • Happy is England (1914) • Presage of Victory (1916) • Stone Trees (1916) • The Moderns: Essays in Literary Criticism (1917); essays on George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Maurice Maeterlinck, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson, and Robert Bridges. • Memories of Childhood and other Poems (1919) • Poems 1909-1920 (1920) • Music (1921) • The Red Path, A Narrative, And The Wounded Bird (1921) • A Portrait of George Moore in a Study of his Work (1922) • The Grove and Other Poems (1925) • Prince Absalom (1925) • Solomon and Balkis (1926) • Collected Poems (1928) • Last Poems (1930) • John Freeman's Letters (1936) posthumous; edited by Gertrude Freeman & Sir John Squire
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John Frederick Freeman is recorded as having received Hawthornden Prize.
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1880
John Frederick Freeman born.
1929
John Frederick Freeman died.
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