Poet (2-Aug-1867 — 23-Feb-1900)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jad Adams. Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent. London: I. B. Tauris. 2000.

Desmond Flower; Henry Maas (editors). The Letters of Ernest Dowson. London: Cassell & Co.. 1967. 470pp.

Mark Longaker. Ernest Dowson. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1944. 282pp.

Victor Plarr. Ernest Dowson, 1888-1897: Reminiscences, Unpublished Letters and Marginalia. London: Elkin Marthews. 1914. 147pp.

Thomas Burnett Swann. Ernest Dowson. New York: Twayne. 1964.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.73)

5. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.155)

6. The Penguin Companion to English Literature (p.159)

7. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.19)

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