| Front | Ernest Dowson - Non Sum Qualis... Personal Context |
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| Back | •In love with an 11yr old when he was 24. He unsuccessfully proposed to her when she was 15(context habitual), and when she married at 19 to another man, he drank himself to death. •His father died of an overdose after suffering from tuberculosis and his mother, who was also consumptive, hanged herself. •Catholic •Oscar Wilde said of him: "a tragic reproduction of all tragic poetry, ... for he knew what love was". |
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