About Edmund John
Lived 1883 – 1917 (aged 33). Edmund John was a poet.
Edmund John (27 November 1883 – 28 February 1917) was a British poet of the Uranian poetry school. His verses were modeled on the Symbolist poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne and other earlier poets. Much of his work was condemned by critics for being overly decadent and unfashionable. He fought in the First World War but was invalided out in 1916. He died a year later in Taormina, Sicily.
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British poet
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Edmund John was born on 27 November 1883 in United Kingdom.
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Edmund John died on 28 February 1917 in Taormina.
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Edmund John was a poet.
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