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Ernest Dowson

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1867 1900PoetRhymers' clubThe yellow bookHis  verse first achieved attention with Poems 1896Yeats described him as timid silent a little meloncholyErnest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 – 23 February 1900) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, often associated with the Decadent movement.Dowson is best remembered for such vivid phrases as "Days of Wine and Roses":They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream.– Ernest Dowson, from "Vitae Summa Brevis" (1896).and "Gone with the wind":I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.– Ernest Dowson, from Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae, third stanza (1894).This latter poem was first published in The Second Book of the Rhymer's Club in 1894, and was noticed by Richard Le Gallienne in his "Wanderings in Bookland" column in The Idler, volume 9. This is also the source of the phrase 'I have been faithful..in my fashion'.Margaret Mitchell, touched by the "far away, faintly sad sound I wanted" of the third stanza's first line, chose that line as the title of her novel Gone with the Wind.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Dowson provides the earliest use of the word soccer in written language (although he spells it socca, presumably because it did not yet have a standard written form).His prose works include the short stories collected as Dilemmas (1895), and the two novels A Comedy of Masks (1893) and Adrian Rome (each co-written with Arthur Moore

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