'Fame is a food that dead men eat': a poem by Austin Dobson; 1915. Autograph fair copy, apparently written for a Red Cross Sale on one side only of an octavo leaf of pale grey laid paper. The leaf forms a bifolium with another, blank, leaf. Watermark... 1915
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Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921
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Dobson became known as a poet for his works "Proverbs in Porcelain" (1877) and "Collected Poems" (1897), in which he used the French forms, and as a biographer, for "Fanny Burney" and "Horace Walpole." From the description of Correspondence, 1902-1908. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122445124 Henry Austin Dobson, civil servant and poet, was born on 18 January 1840. After leaving school at the age of 16, he joined the Board of Trade where he remained until...