Ernest Dowson
Lyric Lives
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 December 2023
- ISBN 9780192884763
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 243x160x20 mm
- Weight 564 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 Illustrations 561
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Short description:
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) was a British writer of the fin de si?cle period, widely seen as the most representative example of the 'tragic generation' of decadent poets. This book presents a full-length and coherent reading of Dowson's oeuvre for the first time in English.
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Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives is the first full-length critical study of this canonical writer to appear in English. It challenges the many myths that have surrounded Dowson's life and work for more than a century, contending that, in his distinct theory of muse-fired inspiration; his authentic Catholic confessionalism; his deep love of France, its literary tradition, and its culture; his prolonged battle with tuberculosis; and his final abandonment of creative writing, Dowson is among the most engaged and representative artists of this fascinating era. Far from the moribund dream-lover of legend, Dowson, in fact, led an engrossing and robust existence, while practicing a vigorous, sullen craft; he wrote about the subjects which poets have always written about, with inimitable style and incorrigible élan.
Ernest Dowson presents a chronological and comprehensive series of generative new readings of his work, situated in relation to that of his notable contemporaries, as well as the pressing cultural and aesthetic debates of the Victorian fin de si?cle. It explores the drastic implications of Dowson's and his era's myopically aesthetical attitude towards life, and reveals precisely how he transformed his own lived experience into art. By reinstating an author of flesh-and-blood at the heart of his slender canon, and by ousting the legendary imposter of our collective, critical imagination, this volume aims to resuscitate Dowson's small but illustrious oeuvre, reclaiming it from likely oblivion.
This is a valuable study of a second-tier canonical author.
Table of Contents:
Introduction. The Muses' Sterner Laws
The Right Type of Girl
Love (In the Shade)
The All Absorbing Subject
Still Point of the Turning World
Dowson's Lunatic Asylum
The Reign of Reverie
Betwixt the Bounds of Life and Death
The End of All the Songs
Afterlives: In Epilogue
Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives
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