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Decorations : in verse and prose / by Ernest Dowson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1899 Dowson
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Signed bindings (Binding) -- 1899.
- Physical Description:
- 50 p. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Leonard Smithers, 1899.
- Contents:
- Beyond. In verse. De amore
- The dead child
- Carthusians
- The three witches
- Villanelle of the poet's road
- Villanelle of Aceron
- Saint Germain-en-Laye
- After Paul Verlaine, I
- After Paul Verlaine, II
- After Paul Velaine, III
- After Paul Velaine, IV
- To his mistress
- Jadis
- In a Breton cemetery
- To William Theodore Peters, on his Renaissance cloak
- The sea-change
- Dregs
- A song
- Breton afternoon
- Venite descendamus
- Transition
- Exchanges
- To a lady asking foolish questions
- Rondeau
- Moritura
- Libera me
- To a lost love
- Wisdom
- In spring
- A last word
- In prose. The fortunate islands
- Markets (after an old nursery rhyme)
- Absinthia taetra
- The visit
- The princess of dreams.
- Notes:
- "Chiswick Press:-Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London"--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in imitation(?) vellum, stamped in gold on front, back and spine; designer's emblem of A in a heart on back cover. Design possibly by Althea Gyles.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the estate of Charles Wharton Stork.
- Cited in:
- Library of English literature, LEL 40182
- Publisher Number:
- PML 134303 GNR 2285
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