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Ernest Dowson (Hardcover, Reprint 2016)
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Ernest Dowson (Hardcover, Reprint 2016)
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Few of the many romantic figures of the nineties have weathered the
changing schools of literary taste as well as Ernest Dowson, in
whose verse there is found a timeless, ingratiating charm and
enduring interest. This biography is only incidentally a critical
appraisal of Dowson's achievements but attempts to give a more
completely rounded picture of the man than we have had before it.
The book is based on a great deal of new material, which clears up
many misinterpretations of Dowson's personality. This consists of
unpublished letters from various sources, including twelve from
Oscar Wilde that have not been printed before and detailed
information gleaned by the author in interviews and in
correspondence with persons who knew the poet intimately. To modern
readers versed in psychological explanations of behavior, Dowson's
story unwinds in a foredoomed pattern: the talented child of
neurotic parents, the maladjusted boy at Oxford, the discontented
young man in London, his curious infatuation for the child
Adelaide, the brief association with prominent literary leaders in
the Rhymers' Club and on the short-lived Savoy, and then his
mother's suicide, his homelessness, poverty, aimless wandering
abroad, the escape in drinking, finally death. Yet with it all, the
insatiable urge to weave out his dreams in facile words which now
form a unique and permanent contribution to English poetry. From
this book Dowson emerges as a tragically interesting figure. The
biography gives as much of his story as probably will ever be
known, and as such takes an important place among the lives of
English poets.
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