Ernest Dowson Collected Poems

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.

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.

In your mother's apple-orchard, When the world was left behind: You were shy, so shy, Yvonne! But your eyes were calm and kind.

"The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons" by Ernest Christopher Dowson Ernest Christopher Dowson was an English poet often associated with the Decadent movement. This collection contains all of his beloved poems, including 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, and many others.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.