John Frederick Freeman

Small text 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.

Life
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".

Recognition
He won the Hawthornden Prize in 1920 with Poems 1909-1920. His Last Hours was set to music by Ivor Gurney.

Publications

 * 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)