"Faithful...In My Fashion[ing]": Shades of Association in Ernest Dowson's Poetry

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VICTORIAN POETRY Pub Date : 2021-06-21 DOI:10.1353/vp.2021.0003

R. Stark

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Abstract

He seemed a lost creature, a youthful ghost strayed amongst the haunts of men, an object of pity. Pale, emaciated, in clothes that were almost ragged, poor Ernest flittered from bar to bar in search of someone with whom to talk. When he found a friend, his face would light up with a singular and penetrating sweetness that made one forget his untidiness— to use no other word— which verged on offence. He was never penniless, was always the first to pay for others, and when the drink was served he would sometimes take a little gold cross from his waistcoat pocket and dip it in the glass before he drank. Someone who did not know the circumstances said, “Ernest, were you ever in love?” The poet answered in the words of Voltaire. “Vous me demandez si j’ai aimé: oui! C’est une histoire singulière et terrible.”1

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“忠诚…《在我的时尚里》:欧内斯特·道森诗歌中的联想阴影

他似乎是一个迷失的人，一个在人们出没的地方游荡的年轻的幽灵，一个可怜的对象。可怜的欧内斯特脸色苍白，瘦骨嶙峋，衣衫褴褛，穿梭于酒吧之间，想找个人说说话。当他找到一个朋友时，他的脸上就会泛起一种独特的、具有穿透性的甜蜜，使人忘记他那近乎冒犯的邋遢——不用别的词了。他从不身无分文，总是第一个替别人买单。酒端上来时，他有时会从背心口袋里掏出一个小小的金十字架，在杯子里蘸一蘸再喝。一个不了解情况的人说:“欧内斯特，你曾经爱过吗?”诗人用伏尔泰的话作了回答。“请告诉我我的需求是什么?”这是一段非常可怕的历史。

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VICTORIAN POETRY POETRY-

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1962 to further the aesthetic study of the poetry of the Victorian Period in Britain (1830–1914), Victorian Poetry publishes articles from a broad range of theoretical and critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social and cultural issues. The journal has expanded its purview from the major figures of Victorian England (Tennyson, Browning, the Rossettis, etc.) to a wider compass of poets of all classes and gender identifications in nineteenth-century Britain and the Commonwealth. Victorian Poetry is edited by John B. Lamb and sponsored by the Department of English at West Virginia University.