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Name: Ernest (Christopher) Dowson
Variant Name: Ernest Dowson, Ernest Christopher Dowson
Birth Date: August 2, 1867
Death Date: February 23, 1900
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Ernest (Christopher) Dowson
5,535 words, approx. 19 pages
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 represent the self-destructive figure who writes...
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Biography of Ernest (Christopher) Dowson
5,451 words, approx. 18 pages
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 years and had virtually completed his contribution...


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Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-23 February 1900), an English poet who was associated with the Decadent Movement , was born at Lee, south-east of London. He attended Oxford University, but left before obtaining a degree. Sourced I have been...


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Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 – 23 February 1900), born in Lee, London, was an English poet associated with the Decadent...


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Criticism
Ernest Dowson and the strategies of decadent desire.
03/22/1994: 8,815 words, approx. 29 pages
Ernest Dowson's poetry has not been given the emphasis it deserves because critics have linked it to a decadent lifestyle. However, it actually explores the need to move beyond erotic or aesthetic pleasure and attempts to discover something beyond those elements. Dowson distances desire...
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Contemporary Review
ERNEST DOWSON: THE SINGER AND THE SONG.(Review) (book review)
10/01/2000: 525 words, approx. 2 pages
Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent. Jad Adams. I.B. Tauris. [pound]19.95. 211 pages. ISBN 1-86064-470-8. Ernest Dowson ... a hundred years dead this millennium ... fifty-five years since last 'biographed'. Now comes along the latest singer...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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In the following essay, Cushman describes "The Dying of Francis Donne" as "a masterly delineation of the psychology of dying" in which its protagonist succeeds in escaping "the tyranny of time only by intellectual detachment and by death. "


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