Ernest Dowson, a major poet of the Victorian Decadent period, alcoholic, and severe depressive, died in 1900 at 32. He created much of his best work while suffering from tuberculosis. The most tragic of his generation, his life is a story of doomed love and adversity. Adams explores how the poet's strange delights and sexual excesses were worked into his lyrical verse.
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“Adams’s artful, assured biography illuminates his subject with penetrating understanding and sensitivity.” —The New York Times
“Adams concludes his fascinating tale of fin-de-siècle folly with the assertion that ‘life presented him with suffering and he returned it as beauty.” —Time Out
“Adams’s well-researched and well-written biography vividly depicts Dowson’s associations with artists and writers in London and Paris.” —The Washington Post
“Adams’s confident, committed biography takes us through the poet’s ups and downs, and then through a few more of his downs.” —Literary Review
“Adams concludes his fascinating tale of fin-de-siècle folly with the assertion that ‘life presented him with suffering and he returned it as beauty.” —Time Out
“Adams’s well-researched and well-written biography vividly depicts Dowson’s associations with artists and writers in London and Paris.” —The Washington Post
“Adams’s confident, committed biography takes us through the poet’s ups and downs, and then through a few more of his downs.” —Literary Review
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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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This review is from: Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) (Paperback)
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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No external facts would indicate that Ernest Dowson was cursed from birth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decadent movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Alfred Dowson, Oscar Wilde, Victor Plarr, Arthur Moore, Lionel Johnson, John Gray, The Yellow Book, Edgar Jepson, Adrian Rome, Robert Sherard, Sam Smith, Aubrey Beardsley, Conal O'Riordan, Teixeira de Mattos, Annie Dowson, Café Royal, Frank Harris, Charles Conder, Comedy of Masks, Vincent O'Sullivan, West End, Ernest Rhys, Lord Alfred Douglas New!
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No external facts would indicate that Ernest Dowson was cursed from birth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decadent movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Alfred Dowson, Oscar Wilde, Victor Plarr, Arthur Moore, Lionel Johnson, John Gray, The Yellow Book, Edgar Jepson, Adrian Rome, Robert Sherard, Sam Smith, Aubrey Beardsley, Conal O'Riordan, Teixeira de Mattos, Annie Dowson, Café Royal, Frank Harris, Charles Conder, Comedy of Masks, Vincent O'Sullivan, West End, Ernest Rhys, Lord Alfred Douglas New!
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- Comedy of Masks, a (a Novel) by Ernest Dowson on 16 pages
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Peirre Choderlos de Laclos on page 133, page 147, and Back Matter
- Dark Angel (Angel Mountain Saga 3) by Brian John on page 40, and page 89
- Robert Browning by T. Joseph on page 1, and Back Matter
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde on page 33, and page 40
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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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