Ernest Christopher Dowson was born on August 2, 1867 in Lee (now part of Lewisham), in the Kent region of the UK. Throughout his life he suffered from poor health, and he died from tuberculosis and neglect on February 23, 1900, aged 32. He was buried in Ladywell Cemetary. Here is an old picture of his grave, scanned from The Letters of Ernest Dowson (Desmond Flower & Henry Maas, editors): CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
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Françoise et Nicole, par Émile Blémont
Dans des articles précédents, j’ai présenté le poète Émile Blémont (1839–1927) et son recueil Les pommiers en fleur : idylles de France et de Normandie, publié en 1891, avec des poèmes sentimentaux sur les jeunes filles et l’amour choisis dans la première partie de celui-ci, Les matins d’or et les nuits bleues. La deuxième partie du recueil, Chansons des champs, traite également de l’amour, mais sur un ton plus sensuel : il y est question de jolis seins et de baisers. Voici deux poèmes de celle-ci, typiques de cette veine. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Spooks, by Nathalia Crane
In 1926, at age 13, Nathalia Crane published her third collection of poetry, The Singing Crow and Other Poems. The title comes from a long poem about a crow that, after having its beak torn by an arrow, becomes a wonderful singer; she returns to that topic in the first poem of the collection’s epilogue, “A singer gone.” The book got some success, and she was then dubbed “The Brooklyn Bard” (see Jessica Amanda Salmonson, “Girl Writers: Nathalia Crane, Vivienne Dayrell, & Daisy Ashford,” The Weird Review). There are several very short poems, in particular “The Colors” is often quoted: CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…