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Madder Music Stronger Wine Hardcover, ISBN 1860644708
Publisher: I B Tauris , 2000
I B Tauris 2000; 1st edition., Cloth, dj, F/F. x+211pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. New.; Biography of Ernest Christopher Dowson [ 1867 – 1900 ] the British poet and member of the ‘Decadent Movement’. His short & wasted life mirroring the fin de siecle mood of the age. ‘Dowson was the Morrissy of his era: a Mr Misery [ Nigel Jones, Daily Express]. Aged 22 he fell in love with an 11 year old girl, but despite pursuing her for 8 years she married another at age 19…. (ISBN 1860644708, biography, poetry, poets, decadence, victorian history)