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Dowson, Ernest Christopher

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Dowson, Ernest Christopher (1867-1900)

English poet. He was one of the Decadents poets of the 1890s, and author of the lyric with the refrain ‘I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion’. His books of verse include Dilemmas (1895), Verses (1896), and Poems (1905). The Pierrot of the Minute (1897) is a poetic drama.

Dowson was born in Kent and educated at Oxford. He spent much of his life in France, where he was weakened by consumption and poverty,
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