Ernest Dowson

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Biographical Materials

• Memoir by Arthur Symons

Works in the Victorian Web

• "Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration" [text]
• "Extreme Unction" [text]
• "My Lady April" [text]
• "Autumnal" [text]
• "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae" [text — discussion]
• "Vanitas" [text]
• "Exile" [text]
• "In Tempore Senectutis" [text]
• "Gray Nights" [text]
• "Flos Lunae" [text]
• "Spleen" [text]
• "Benedictio Domin" [text]

Electronic Texts available from Project Gutenberg

• The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
• A Comedy of Masks: A Novel

Artistic Relations

• Dowson as subject
• Portrait by William Rothenstein
• Photograph
• Beardsley's illustrations for "Pierrot of the Minute"
• Half Title
• Frontispiece
• Heading
• Cul de Lampe

Reading and discussion questions

• Thinly-veiled critiques in Dowson's "Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration"
• What Is Dowson's Attitude in "Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration"?
• Sensual Bondage and the Voice behind Ernest Dowson's "Extreme Unction"
• Deviation from Traditional Metaphor in Dowson's "My Lady April"
• Body as Metaphor in "Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration"
• Perpetually Deprived
• Maybe the nuns are right

Last modified 13 November 2010