Name John Freeman Role Poet | Died September 23, 1929 | |
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Books Poems New and Old, The Moderns: Essays in, A portrait of George Moore in, English portraits and essays, Herbal Therapeutics | ||
John freeman national poetry competition 2012 third prize
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.
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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. 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.
Workshop john freeman this is where i was calling from
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