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Updated: May 2, 2025

But a remark made of Tennyson is still more applicable to Flecker. "He was an artist before he was a poet." Even as a small boy, he had astonishing facility, but naturally wrote little worth preserval. The Collected Poems show an extraordinary command of his instrument. He had the orthodox virtues of the orthodox poet rime and rhythm, cunning in words, skill in nature-painting, imagination.

William Lyon Phelps - The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century