{"product_id":"ernest-dowson-9780192884763","title":"Ernest Dowson","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnest Dowson: Lyric Lives is the first full-length critical study of this canonical writer to appear in English. It challenges the many myths that have surrounded Dowson''s life and work for more than a century, contending that, in his distinct theory of muse-fired inspiration; his authentic Catholic confessionalism; his deep love of France, its literary tradition, and its culture; his prolonged battle with tuberculosis; and his final abandonment of creative writing, Dowson is among the most engaged and representative artists of this fascinating era. Far from the moribund dream-lover of legend, Dowson, in fact, led an engrossing and robust existence, while practicing a vigorous, sullen craft; he wrote about the subjects which poets have always written about, with inimitable style and incorrigible élan. Ernest Dowson presents a chronological and comprehensive series of generative new readings of his work, situated in relation to that of his notable contemporaries, as well as the pressi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. The Muses' Sterner Laws 1: The Right Type of Girl 2: Love (In the Shade) 3: The All Absorbing Subject 4: Still Point of the Turning World 5: Dowson's Lunatic Asylum 6: The Reign of Reverie 7: Betwixt the Bounds of Life and Death 8: The End of All the Songs Afterlives: In Epilogue","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732609904983,"sku":"9780192884763","price":66.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ernest-dowson-9780192884763","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}