Dowson’s Excesses and Poetics

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900), the archetypal Décadent poet, is still as relevant as ever, if not more so, in the 21st century. Did Dowson’s excesses merely consign him to being one of the also-rans of Victorian poetry? Or, rather, were his addiction and self-degradation not somehow related to the unfol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adrian Grafe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2006-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/12571