In the early 1890s Ernest Dowson created lyrics that rival even the most perfect creations of the seventeenth-century English poets. Already fatally ill in his twenties, he wrote for only a half dozen...
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Ernest Dowson is frequently considered to be the archetypal Decadent poet, the quintessence of 1890s writing, as much because of the details of his life as for the nature of his art. He is taken to re...
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