Ernest Dowson, one of the major poets of the romantic late Victorian Decadent period, died in 1900 at the age of 32, an alcoholic and a severe depressive. He created much of his best work when he was suffering from the tuberculosis which was finally to kill him. This little understood major figure of the Victorian literary world wrote some of the most quoted lyrics in English verse in the company of contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats. This full biography explores Dowson’s strange delights and sexual excesses while providing fascinating insights into the bohemian circles of London and Paris in the romantic fin de siecle period, and the bizarre and outrageous characters who made up "the Decadents".
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"...Adams is thorough in detailing the good and the bad about the writer..." --Boston Globe
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Jad Adams is a producer of history documentaries and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Dowson biography ably fills a void,
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A solid effort that does a fine job of exploring the life of a very talented but rather mysterious figure in English poetry. Given the dearth of documentation available, Adams ably explores Downson's life and the artistic circle of which he was a part. The one weakness is the relative lack of attention paid to the poems themselves. Though they aren't ignored, Adams doesn't do much to enhance our understanding of the works that are likely to keep Dowson's name familiar to poetry lovers for generations to come. Still, the books offers a wonderful look at its subject and the many talent writers who were part of the brief but brillant Decadent period in British literature.
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Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Alfred Dowson, Oscar Wilde, Victor Plarr, Arthur Moore, Lionel Johnson, The Yellow Book, John Gray, Edgar Jepson, Adrian Rome, Robert Sherard, Sam Smith, Aubrey Beardsley, Conal O'Riordan, Teixeira de Mattos, Comedy of Masks, Annie Dowson, Frank Harris, Herbert Horne, Café Royal, Vincent O'Sullivan, Charles Conder, Ernest Rhys, Lord Alfred Douglas New!
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Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Alfred Dowson, Oscar Wilde, Victor Plarr, Arthur Moore, Lionel Johnson, The Yellow Book, John Gray, Edgar Jepson, Adrian Rome, Robert Sherard, Sam Smith, Aubrey Beardsley, Conal O'Riordan, Teixeira de Mattos, Comedy of Masks, Annie Dowson, Frank Harris, Herbert Horne, Café Royal, Vincent O'Sullivan, Charles Conder, Ernest Rhys, Lord Alfred Douglas New!
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- The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History by Phil Baker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti And the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief And the Self (Nineteenth Century Series) by John Holmes in Back Matter
- How to Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson in Back Matter
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