“He was in wonderful form, but has changed a good deal — he seems of much broader sympathies, much more human & simple. And his delight in the country, in walking, in the simplicities of life is enchanting.”
About Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900
In the fading light of Victorian England, when the certainties of empire began to crack and a fin-de-siècle weariness settled over the literary world, Ernest Christopher Dowson emerged as one of the most hauntingly beautiful voices of his generation. His brief, tragic life—spanning a mere thirty-two years from 1867 to…