FS Flint
Frank Stuart Flint , better known as FS Flint , (born December 19, 1885 in Islington , London , † February 28, 1960 in Berkshire ) was a British poet and critic . He was one of the most important representatives of imagism .
Life
Early life
FS Flint was born on December 19, 1885 in Islington, where he grew up in poverty. He left school at 13 and had to work. Four years later, at 17, he read a collection of poetry by John Keats , which sparked a love for poetry in him. At 19 he started working as a writer and taking lessons in an evening school . There he learned Latin and French.
Career
He published his first collection of poems, In the Net of Stars , in 1909 . In 1915 and 1920 he published two more poetry collections called Cadances and Otherworld: Cadences . Together with other contemporaries like Ezra Pound , his poems showed a new trend that was later called imagism.
He worked in the Ministry of Labor from 1919 to 1951.
After the death of his wife, he stopped publishing poetry, but he never stopped publishing essays.
Later life and death
He died in Berkshire on February 28, 1960.
Bibliography (selection)
Poems
- London, my beautiful
- Hallucination
- Immortal? ... No,
- The grass is beneath my head
- The Swan
Poetry collections
- In the Net of Stars , Poetry Bookshop, 1909
- Cadences
- Otherworld: Cadences , Poetry Bookshop, 1920
- The Fourth Imagist: Selected Poems of FS Flint (Edited by Michael Copp)
Translations
- The Love Poems of Emile Verhaeren , Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1916
- Jean de Bosschere, John Lane: The Closed Door , London 1917
Essays
- Contemporary French Poetry , article in The Poetry Review, August 1912
- Imagisme , Poetry Chicago March 1913
- The History of Imagism , The Egoist, May 1915
- The Poetry of HD , The Egoist, May 1915
- Six French Poets , The Egoist, January 1916
- The Younger French Poets , The Chapbook; A Monthly Miscellany, London November 1920
Web links
- FS Flint in the Encyclopædia Britannica
literature
- William Richard Knox: FS Flint: Imagism's Quiet Rebel . Michigan State University , Department of English Language and Literature, 1973
- Cyrena N. Pondrom: The Road from Paris: French Influence on English Poetry 1900-1920 , Cambridge University Press , 1974, ISBN 9780521131193
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c F. S. Flint. In: poets.org. Academy of American Poets, accessed May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Biography of FS Flint. Retrieved May 14, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flint, F. S |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flint, Frank Stuart (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Islington |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1960 |
| Place of death | Berkshire |