biography
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Dowson, Ernest Christopher
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1900)
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| biography:
| Poet of the ‘decadent’ school, born in Lee, SEC Greater London, UK. He studied at Oxford, became part of the Rhymers' Club group, and was a friend of Arthur Symons and W B Yeats. He spent the rest of his life in France, where he died of alcoholism. |
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