Ernest Dowson collected poems / Ernest Dowson ; edited by R. K. R. Thornton with Caroline Dowson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900, author.

Contributor:

Thornton, R. K. R., editor.

Dowson, Caroline, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] : Birmingham University Press, 2003.

Summary:

This edition includes all of Dowson's known poems. It describes in detail the contents of his manuscript notebook and re-transcribes the poems from it; it includes his two published volumes, Verses (1896) and Decorations (1899), his verse play The Pierrot of the Minute, the discrete independent parts of his verse translation of Voltaire, and a few uncollected pieces. All have been checked where possible against the original manuscripts and annotated to provide explanation and context.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

To Ernest Dowson

Introduction

Chronology

A Note on the Text

Acknowledgements

Poésie Schublade: A Summary of the contents of the Flower notebook

POÉSIE SCHUBLADE

To Cynara

A Mosaic

Requiem

Potnia Thea

Rondeau

Sonnets, I, In Memoriam H.C.

Sonnets, II, Novalis

Sonnets of a Little Girl, I

Sonnets of a Little Girl, II

Sonnets of a Little Girl, III

Sonnets of a Little Girl, IV

Sonnets of a Little Girl, V

Sonnets of a Little Girl, VI

Sonnets of a Little Girl, VII

Sonnets of a Little Girl, VIII, Epilogue

La Jeunesse n'a q'un Temps

Song of the XlXth Century

A Lullaby

Spleen

After Many Years

Praeterita

Adios!

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It is finished

Ere I go Hence

Transit Gloria

Sonnet, to Nature

Awakening

Lullaby

The Old Year

The New Year

From the Icelandic

Love's Epilogue

Rondeau: Hélène

Roundel: To Hélène

Rondel

Discedam, explebo numerum, reddarque tenebris

Against my Lady Burton

EARLY AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS

A Letter from M. M. versified out of poor prose into catchpenny verse!

Fragment

The Passing of Tennyson

Fantaisie Triste

VERSES (1896)

Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam

In Preface: For Adelaide

A Coronal

Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration

Villanelle of Sunset

My Lady April

To One in Bedlam

Ad Domnulam Suam

Amor Umbratilis

Amor Profanus

Villanelle of Marguerites

Yvonne of Brittany

Benedictio Domini

Growth

Ad Manus Puellae

Flos Lunae

Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae

Vanitas

Exile

O Mors! quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis

You would have understood me had you waited

April Love

Vain Hope

Vain Resolves

A Requiem.

Beata Solitudo

Terre Promise

Autumnal

In Tempore Senectutis

Villanelle of his Lady's Treasures

Gray Nights

Vesperal

The Garden of Shadow

Soli cantare periti Arcades

On the Birth of a Friend's Child

Extreme Unction

Amantium Irae

Impenitentia Ultima

A Valediction

Sapientia Lunae

Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad

Seraphita

Epigram

Quid non speremus, Amantes

Chanson Sans Paroles

THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE (1897)

TRANSLATIONS FROM LA PUCELLE (1899)

DECORATIONS: IN VERSE AND PROSE (1899)

Beyond

IN VERSE

De Amore

The Dead Child

Carthusians

The Three Witches

Villanelle of the Poet's Road

Villanelle of Acheron

Saint Germain-en-Laye

After Paul Verlaine, I

After Paul Verlaine, II

After Paul Verlaine, III

After Paul Verlaine, 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

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

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780567406965

0567406962

OCLC:

951807273