Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Book

Ernest Dowson was one of the major poets of the romantic late Victorian Decadent period. Adams explores Dowson's passions to show how the poet's strange delights and sexual excesses were worked into the pure verse of such lyrics as Cynara and provides insights into the bohemian circles of London and Paris in the fin de siecle period.Read More

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    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.

  • 1860647146
  • 9781860647147
  • Jad Adams
  • 16 November 2001
  • Tauris Parke Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 232
  • New Ed
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