John Freeman (poet), Date of Birth, Date of Death

John Freeman (poet)

English poet and essayist

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1880

Date of Death: 23-Sep-1929

Profession: writer, poet, author

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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.