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John Frederick Freeman
John Frederick Freeman 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.
Books by John Frederick Freeman
Once There Was Time
John Frederick Freeman 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 ha...
Listening
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Listening by John Frederick Freeman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 20, 2022. ------ The poet describes a pasture in the evening.
Full Tide
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Full Tide by John Frederick Freeman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2023. ------ John Frederick Freeman was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insuran...
Physician
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Physician by John Frederick Freeman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 24, 2023. ------ John Frederick Freeman was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in in...