2025年2月19日 · Ernest Dowson (born Aug. 2, 1867, Lee, Kent, Eng.—died Feb. 23, 1900, Lewisham, London) was one of the most gifted of the circle of English poets of the 1890s …

2013年11月22日 · In a couple of previous posts, on George Meredith and Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, we’ve endeavoured to find five interesting things about two of Victorian literature’s …

Ernest Dowson lived in London, worked at his parents’ dry-docking business, and was a member of the Rhymers’ Club with W.B. Yeats and Arthur Symons. Dowson’s poems trace the sorrow …

His best-known poem is “Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae,” with its refrain, “I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.” A Roman Catholic, Dowson wrote some …

2014年10月28日 · Jennifer Aldridge passed back to Carol Tregorran a book of poetry by Ernest Dowson, which had mistakenly been included in John Tregorran’s bequest to Jennifer. We …

2017年1月12日 · Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) was a Decadent poet who embodied the best and the worst of that literary and artistic movement: the drink, the drugs, the longing for …

His best-known poem is “Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae,” with its refrain, “I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.” A Roman Catholic, Dowson wrote some …

Ernest Christopher Dowson [1867-1900] gets my vote as one the very best unknown (or at least vastly underrated) poets of all time. Dowson wrote a handful of utterly stellar gems —poems …

One of the fin-de-siècle decadents, Dowson wrote fragile, sensuous poetry voicing regret for the passing of youth and beauty, the denial of love, and the rejection of pleasure. His best-known …

2013年7月24日 · The dissipated life and tragic early death of Ernest Dowson (b. 1867–d. 1900) are the stuff of legend, such that he is widely taken as the most representative example of the …