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Subject(s)

• English poetry—18th century [Browse]

Editor

• Thornton, R. K. R. [Browse]
• Dowson, Caroline [Browse]

Summary note

This edition includes all of Dowson's known poems. It describes in detail the contents of his manuscript notebook and re-transcribes the poems from it; it includes his two published volumes, Verses (1896) and Decorations (1899), his verse play The Pierrot of the Minute, the discrete independent parts of his verse translation of Voltaire, and a few uncollected pieces. All have been checked where possible against the original manuscripts and annotated to provide explanation and context.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• To Ernest Dowson
• Introduction
• Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Acknowledgements
• Poésie Schublade: A Summary of the contents of the Flower notebook
• POÉSIE SCHUBLADE
• To Cynara
• A Mosaic
• Requiem
• Potnia Thea
• Rondeau
• Sonnets, I, In Memoriam H.C.
• Sonnets, II, Novalis
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, I
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, II
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, III
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, IV
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, V
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, VI
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, VII
• Sonnets of a Little Girl, VIII, Epilogue
• La Jeunesse n'a q'un Temps
• Song of the XlXth Century
• A Lullaby
• Spleen
• After Many Years
• Praeterita
• Adios!
• Seraphita-Seraphit&
• #363
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• It is finished
• Ere I go Hence
• Transit Gloria
• Sonnet, to Nature
• Awakening
• Lullaby
• The Old Year
• The New Year
• From the Icelandic
• Love's Epilogue
• Rondeau: Hélène
• Roundel: To Hélène
• Rondel
• Discedam, explebo numerum, reddarque tenebris
• Against my Lady Burton
• EARLY AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS
• A Letter from M. M. versified out of poor prose into catchpenny verse!
• Fragment
• The Passing of Tennyson
• Fantaisie Triste
• VERSES (1896)
• Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam
• In Preface: For Adelaide
• A Coronal
• Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
• Villanelle of Sunset
• My Lady April
• To One in Bedlam
• Ad Domnulam Suam
• Amor Umbratilis
• Amor Profanus
• Villanelle of Marguerites
• Yvonne of Brittany
• Benedictio Domini
• Growth
• Ad Manus Puellae
• Flos Lunae
• Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
• Vanitas
• Exile
• O Mors! quam amara est memoria tua homini pacem habenti in substantiis suis
• You would have understood me had you waited
• April Love
• Vain Hope
• Vain Resolves
• A Requiem.
• Beata Solitudo
• Terre Promise
• Autumnal
• In Tempore Senectutis
• Villanelle of his Lady's Treasures
• Gray Nights
• Vesperal
• The Garden of Shadow
• Soli cantare periti Arcades
• On the Birth of a Friend's Child
• Extreme Unction
• Amantium Irae
• Impenitentia Ultima
• A Valediction
• Sapientia Lunae
• Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad
• Seraphita
• Epigram
• Quid non speremus, Amantes
• Chanson Sans Paroles
• THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE (1897)
• TRANSLATIONS FROM LA PUCELLE (1899)
• DECORATIONS: IN VERSE AND PROSE (1899)
• Beyond
• IN VERSE
• De Amore
• The Dead Child
• Carthusians
• The Three Witches
• Villanelle of the Poet's Road
• Villanelle of Acheron
• Saint Germain-en-Laye
• After Paul Verlaine, I
• After Paul Verlaine, II
• After Paul Verlaine, III
• After Paul Verlaine, IV
• To His Mistress
• Jadis
• In a Breton Cemetery
• To William Theodore Peters, on his Renaissance Cloak
• The Sea-change
• Dregs
• A Song
• Breton Afternoon
• Venite Descendamus
• Transition
• Exchanges
• To a Lady asking foolish Questions
• Moritura
• Libera Me
• To a Lost Love
• Wisdom
• In Spring
• A Last Word
• IN PROSE
• The Fortunate Islands
• Markets (after an old Nursery Rhyme)
• Absinthia Taetra
• The Visit
• The Princess of Dreams
• NOTES
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES.

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ISBN

• 9780567406965
• 0567406962

OCLC

951807273

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