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Jan 29, 1880 Died on 23 Sep 1929 (aged 49)

English poet and essayist

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About John Freeman Poet

  • 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.
  • 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.

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