Author name: F.S. Flint

F.S. Flint (1885—1960) was an English poet and translator born on December 19, 1885, in Islington, London, and died on February 28, 1960, in Berkshire. He grew up in poverty and left formal schooling at the age of 13 to work various jobs before entering the British Civil Service as a typist in 1904. Despite limited formal education, he was largely self-taught, mastering ten languages and becoming a leading authority on modern French poetry. He was prominent in the Imagist movement, and closely associated with Ezra Pound and T.E. Hulme.