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Ernest Christopher Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 – 23 February 1900), born in Lee, London, was an English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western Book printed from Movable Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar Lee (also Lee Green) is a suburb and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London. The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" In 19th century European and especially French literature, Decadence was the name given first by hostile critics and then triumphantly adopted by some writers

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Biography

Dowson attended The Queen's College, Oxford, but left before obtaining a degree. The Queen's College, founded 1341 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the [1] In November 1888, he started work with his father at Dowson and Son, a dry-docking business in Limehouse, east London, established by the poet's grandfather. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a A drydock is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform He led as active a social life as he could, carousing with medical students and law pupils, going to music halls, taking the performers to dinner, and so forth. At the same time he was working assiduously at his writing. He was a member of the Rhymers' Club, which included W. B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson. The Rhymers' Club was a group of London -based poets founded in 1890 by W Lionel Pigot Johnson ( 15 March 1867 - 4 October 1902) was an English poet essayist and critic He was also a frequent contributor to the literary magazines The Yellow Book and The Savoy. A literary magazine is a Periodical devoted to Literature in a broad sense The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone and This article is about the former British magazine for other uses see Savoy (disambiguation The Savoy was a magazine of literature, Dowson collaborated on a couple of unsuccessful novels with Arthur Moore, was working on his own novel Madame de Viole, and was working as an unpaid reviewer for The Critic. Arthur Moore could refer to Arthur Thomas Moore (1830&ndash1913 Irish Victoria Cross recipient Arthur Moore (labor leader (born The Critic is an American Animated series that revolved around the life of movie critic Jay Sherman, voiced by actor Jon

In 1889, Dowson fell in love with eleven-year-old Adelaide "Missie" Foltinowicz, the daughter of a Polish restaurant owner. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Adelaide is reputed to be the subject of one his best-known poems, Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae. He pursued her unsuccessfully; in 1897, she married a tailor who lodged above the restaurant, and Dowson was crushed. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common In August 1894, his father, who was in the advanced stages of tuberculosis, died of an overdose of chloral hydrate. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Chloral hydrate is a Sedative and Hypnotic drug as well as a Chemical reagent and precursor His mother, who was also consumptive, hanged herself in February 1895, and Dowson began to decline rapidly.

Robert Sherard one day found Dowson almost penniless in a wine bar and took him back to the cottage in Catford where he was himself living. Robert Harborough Sherard ( 3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English Writer and Journalist. Catford is a town in London located at the heart of the London Borough of Lewisham, England Dowson spent the last six weeks of his life at Sherard's cottage and died there of alcoholism (or some say of tuberculosis) at the age of 32. He is buried in the Roman Catholic section of nearby Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries are Nature Conservation sites of Borough Importance Grade 1 and are a haven for wildlife plants and wildflowers

Works

Dowson is best remembered for some vivid phrases, such as days of wine and roses from his poem Vitae Summa Brevis, which appears in the stanza:

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

and "gone with the wind", from Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae, the third stanza of which reads:

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. This is about the 1936 American Novel. For the film see Gone with the Wind (film Gone with the Wind is a 1936 American

The last line of this stanza is the last line of all four stanzas of the poem, and was the inspiration for the song title Always True to You in My Fashion from Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter. " Always True to You in My Fashion " is a 1948 show-tune by Cole Porter, written for the musical Kiss Me Kate. Kiss Me Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Cole Albert Porter (June 9 1891 &ndash October 15 1964 was an American Composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana.

In her words, it was the "far away, faintly sad sound I wanted" of the third stanza's first line that inspired Margaret Mitchell to call her one and only novel "Gone with the Wind. "

He provides the earliest use of the word soccer in written language in the OED (although he spells it socca', presumably because it did not yet have a standard written form)[2]. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English

His prose works include the short stories collected as Dilemmas (1895), and the two novels A Comedy of Masks and Adrian Rome (each co-written with Arthur Moore). Arthur Moore could refer to Arthur Thomas Moore (1830&ndash1913 Irish Victoria Cross recipient Arthur Moore (labor leader (born Some of his short prose was first published in the journal, The Yellow Book. The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone and

References

Notes

  1. ^ Adams p. 17; he left in March 1888.
  2. ^ Soccer in the OED

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