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Dowson was born on August 2, 1867 in Lee, Kent, near London, England. Poor health, financial difficulties, and nervous instability (his mother and possibly his father committed suicide) contributed to his pessimistic outlook.
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Dowson was born on August 2, 1867 in Lee, Kent, near London, England. Poor health, financial difficulties, and nervous instability (his mother and possibly his father committed suicide) contributed to his pessimistic outlook.
Dowson left Oxford in 1888, to admire and practice the bohemian way of life.
During his most productive years (1890 - 1894), he belonged to the Rhymers' Club, many of whose members made a cult of the aesthetic and regarded Walter Pater as their high priest. Besides doing translations, chiefly from the French, Dowson wrote fiction and one play, The Pierrot of the Minute (1897), but he is now remembered for a few lyric poems, some of them, though apparently not "Cynara, " inspired by his unrequited devotion to Adelaide Foltinowicz, the daughter of a Polish restaurant-keeper. His friends included Lionel Johnson and, for a brief period, Oscar Wilde. He is distinctly a minor poet and of the school of art sometimes called decadent, yet his verses combine a high degree of finish and a haunting musical quality with overtones which recall his unhappy career.
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