Ernest Dowson : lyric lives / Robert Stark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stark, Robert (Lecturer), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Dowson, Ernest Christopher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) was a British writer of the fin de siècle 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Muses' Sterner Laws

1 The Right Type of Girl

2 Love (In the Shade)

3 The All-Absorbing Subject

4 Still Point of the Turning World

5 Dowson's Lunatic Asylum

6 The Reign of Reverie

7 Betwixt the Bounds of Life and Death

8 The End of All the Songs

Afterlives: In Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 15, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Stark, Robert Ernest Dowson

ISBN:

0-19-198039-0

0-19-288485-9

0-19-288486-7

OCLC:

1411311693