Who is Edward Dowden

Edward Dowden (3 May 1843 – 4 April 1913) was an Irish critic, professor, and poet.

Biography

He was the son of John Wheeler Dowden, a merchant and landowner, and was born at Cork, three years after his brother John, who became Bishop of Edinburgh in 1886. Edward's literary tastes emerged early, in a series of essays written at the age of twelve. His home education continued at Queen's College, Cork and at Trinity College, Dublin. He contributed to the literary magazine Kottabos.He had a distinguished career, becoming president of the Philosophical Society, and won the vice-chancellor's prize for English verse and prose, and the first senior moderatorship in ethics and logic. In 1867 he was elected professor of oratory and English literature in Dublin University...
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Edward Dowden Poems

  • In The Garden Iii: An Interior
    THE grass around my limbs is deep and sweet;
    Yonder the house has lost its shadow wholly,
    The blinds are dropped, and softly now and slowly
    The day flows in and floats; a calm retreat ...
  • In The Garden Vii: Early Autumn
    IF while I sit flatter'd by this warm sun
    Death came to me, and kiss'd my mouth and brow,
    And eyelids which the warm light hovers through,
    I should not count it strange. Being half won ...
  • A New Hymn For Solitude
    I found Thee in my heart, O Lord,
    As in some secret shrine;
    I knelt, I waited for Thy word,
    I joyed to name Thee mine. ...
  • Awakening
    With brain oâ??erworn, with heart a summer clod,
    With eye so practised in each form around,â??
    And all forms mean,â??to glance above the ground
    Irks it, each day of many days we plod, ...
  • By The Window
    STILL deep into the West I gazed; the light
    Clear, spiritual, tranquil as a bird
    Wide-winged that soars on the smooth gale and sleeps,
    Was it from sun far-set or moon unrisen? ...
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