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019288476X pdf Ernest 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