John Freeman (Georgian poet)

John Freeman (Georgian poet)

John Frederick Freeman, (January 29 1880 – September 23 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. 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.

Works

* "Presage of Victory" (1916)
* "Stone Trees" (1916)
* "Ancient and Modern Essays in Literary Criticism" (1917)
* "Memories of Childhood and other Poems" (1919)
* "Poems" 1909-1920 (1920)
* "Music" (1921)
* "The Grove and Other Poems" (1925)
* "Prince Absalom" (1925)
* "Collected Poems" (1928)
* "Last Poems" (1930)

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