The Stories of Ernest Dowson

The Stories of Ernest Dowson PDF Author: Mark Longaker
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512817708
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson PDF Author: Ernest Dowson Et Al
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN: 9781406825961
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The Stories of Ernest Dowson

The Stories of Ernest Dowson PDF Author: Mark Longaker
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512817708
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

A Comedy of Masks

A Comedy of Masks PDF Author: Ernest Christopher Dowson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021957498
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A wry and witty novel about a group of upper-class Englishmen and their romantic entanglements, set against the backdrop of fashionable society in late nineteenth-century London. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Letters of Ernest Dowson

The Letters of Ernest Dowson PDF Author: Ernest Christopher Dowson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838667477
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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A collection of Downson's letters that provide a wealth of biographical information and add enough to a knowledge of the literary history of his time (late 19th-century England) to bring to the reader this outstanding volume.

The Wind Done Gone

The Wind Done Gone PDF Author: Alice Randall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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A parody of Gone with the wind, this novel tells the story of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister born into slavery who eventually triumphs.

Incurable

Incurable PDF Author: Lionel P Johnson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1907222626
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siècle. A lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde. Johnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub. It was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including The Chameleon, The Yellow Book, and The Savoy. Like a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson's dream churches, Incurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siècle. Containing a detailed biography, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, Incurable pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.

The Book of Absinthe

The Book of Absinthe PDF Author: Phil Baker
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802199771
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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A witty, erudite primer to the world’s most notorious drink. La Fée Verte (or “The Green Fairy”) has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe’s drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous “special” ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium, homicidal mania, and death. Opening with the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders, Phil Baker offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as an herbal tonic through its luxuriantly morbid heyday in the late nineteenth century. Chronicling a fascinatingly lurid cast of historical characters who often died young, the absinthe scrapbook includes Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, August Strindberg, Alfred Jarry, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Allais, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso. Along with discussing the rituals and modus operandi of absinthe drinking, Baker reveals the recently discovered pharmacology of how real absinthe actually works on the nervous system, and he tests the various real and fake absinthe products that are available overseas. “Formidably researched, beautifully written, and abundant with telling detail and pitch-black humor.” —The Daily Telegraph

Verses

Verses PDF Author: Ernest Christopher Dowson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Cynara

Cynara PDF Author: Ernest Christopher Dowson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Nine hundred and fifty copies of this book printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed.

Madder Music, Stronger Wine

Madder Music, Stronger Wine PDF Author: Jad Adams
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Ernest Dowson was one of the major poets of the romantic late-Victorian Decadent period. This biography examines Dowson's obsessions and explores his life and work in the context of the social mores and attitudes of his era.