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  • Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    In Ernest Dowson

    …of the Minute (1897), and Decorations in Verse and Prose (1899). His lyrics, much influenced by French poet Paul Verlaine and marked by meticulous attention to melody and cadence, turn the conventional world-weariness of the 1890s into a deeper sense of the sadness of things. Yeats acknowledged that much of…

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