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Five Reasons Everyone Should Know Ernest Dowson
Reblogged from Interesting Literature:
What's the connection between wine, poetry, Gone with the Wind, and soccer? In a couple of previous posts, on George Meredith and Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, we've endeavoured to find five interesting things about two of Victorian literature's neglected figures. Now it's the turn of Ernest Dowson - decadent poet. Some of these are particularly surprising.
1. Ernest Dowson coined the phrase 'the days of wine and roses'.
An interesting post on one of my favourite poets. "They Are Not Long" is beautiful in it's simplicity. Besides being a poet Dowson also wrote a number of short stories and one play. The latter concerns a moon goddess and her trist with a mortal at Versailles. Dowson should be far better known than he is.
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