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Madder music, stronger wine : the life of Ernest Dowson, poet and decadent / Jad Adams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; I.B. Tauris ; 2000Distributor: New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000Description: x, 211 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1860644708
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.8 21 A.J.M
Online resources: Review: "Ernest Dowson was one of the major poets of the romantic late Victorian Decadent period." "Madder Music, Stronger Wine, the first full biography for 50 years, examines Dowson’s obsessions and explores his life and work in the context of the social mores and attitudes of his era. Jad Adams explores Dowson’s passions to show how the poet’s strange delights and sexual excess were worked into his lyrical verse. It provides insights into the bohemian circles of London and Paris in the fin de siecle period and the bizarre and outrageous characters who made up ’the Decadents’."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.

"Ernest Dowson was one of the major poets of the romantic late Victorian Decadent period." "Madder Music, Stronger Wine, the first full biography for 50 years, examines Dowson’s obsessions and explores his life and work in the context of the social mores and attitudes of his era. Jad Adams explores Dowson’s passions to show how the poet’s strange delights and sexual excess were worked into his lyrical verse. It provides insights into the bohemian circles of London and Paris in the fin de siecle period and the bizarre and outrageous characters who made up ’the Decadents’."--BOOK JACKET.

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