John Frederick Freeman was born on January 29, 1880 in London. When he was 13, he got a job as an office boy in an insurance firm and went on to have a successful career before quitting to write poetry full-time.
He met Walter De La Mare in 1907, and the two poets became fast friends.
Freeman won the Hawthornden Prize in 1920 for his poetry collection, and he ended up writing sixteen bodies of work consisting of poetry collections, letters, and essays between 1911 and 1929.
Freeman passed on September 23, 1929.
We are reading from Poems New and Old, a collection published in 1920.
