About this title: Ernest Dowson, the subject of this biography, was one of the major poets of the romantic late-Victorian Decadent period. He died in 1900 at the age of 32. His life is both a story of doomed love and one of a man's struggle to create beauty in the face of adversity: Dowson was an alcoholic and a severe depressive who created much of his best work when suffering from the tuberculosis which was to kill him when he was a homeless vagabond owning nothing but a tattered manuscript book of verse. Yet this little-understood figure of the Victorian literary world wrote some of the most-quoted lyrics ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co., London
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781860644702ISBN:1860644708
Description: New in New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A biography of Ernest Dowson who was a major poet of the late-Victorian Decadent period who wrote some of the most quoted lyrics in English verse including them 'gone with the wind' and 'days of wine and roses', showing how his strange delights and sexual excesses were worked into the pure verse of lyrics such as 'Cynara'. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781860644702ISBN:1860644708
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches; Fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781860644702ISBN:1860644708
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Unmarked, bright pages, firmly bound, with unclipped jacket. Literary Biography. read more
"Ernest Dowson, a friend of Oscar Wilde and an important, although often overlooked poet from the Victorian Decadent era.
My interest in Dowson began after seeing fresh flowers on his grave, a 110 year old grave where all around his had been forgotten. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and now, well I'm hooked. His poetry is arguably some of the most important lyrics of his time, and was considered by some a 'genius' including Oscar Wilde.
He died penniless, sleeping on a friends sofa in pain physically, and emotionally tortured (both his parents committed suicide, and the only girl he ever loved, did not feel the same about him). He died of 'consumption' at the age of 32, when he should have been in his prime.
This book has only fed my fire to find out more about Dowson, and to read his works.
The Author, Jad Adams manages to bring to life the Decedent Era, and also, and which I found very useful, was to be very honest, and realistic. He obviously researched the subject in great detail.
An amazing poet, a tragic life (perhaps that is why his poetry is so powerful?) and through this book Adams gives an authentic insight into the era, and into the life of Ernest Dowson"
"If you are a follower of Dowson's poetry this is an extremely comprehensive and informative well written appraisal of his life. There is little enough written about Dowson but his life has been well researched in this relatively short work and tells you as much as you are going to know about him. Dowson had rather a dreadful and certainly sad life but wrote some very profound words during his short time here on this earth."
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