Ernest Dowson - Lyric Lives

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

Since completing a PhD at the University of Minnesota in 2007, Robert Stark has lectured on modern poetry, literature, and critical theory throughout the world. His professional absorption in the field of poetry and poetics now extends to four or five reasonably distinct ways of knowing: including original composition, interpretation, historical exegesis, the editorial establishment of poetic texts, and the classroom promulgation of literature. His scholarship focuses on the margins of modernism, and on the ways in which writers, and poets especially, use other writing (especially verse) to make sense.

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.

Additional text

This is a valuable study of a second-tier canonical author.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Stark, Robert (Independent Scholar) Stark, Robert (Teacher Stark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2023
• EAN: 9780192884763
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288476-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets