John Gould Fletcher

John Gould Fletcher was born in 1886 in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of a wealthy cotton broker, a former Confederate soldier. He left Harvard in 1907 after his father's death, whose inheritance made him independent, left for Europe in 1908 and afterwards lived mostly in London, where he had five volumes of verse printed at his own expense in 1913. He later broke with modernism, joined the Southern Agrarians and returned to Arkansas in the early thirties. The first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1939, he deliberately drowned himself in a pond near his house in 1950.

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• PoetryGoblins and PagodasJohn Gould Fletcher · 1916Literature