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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship.
Apr 30, 2021 · Lord Alfred Douglas was an extremely good-looking man when he was young, but his physical beauty hid a pretty terrible person. As the Irish Times notes, he's widely considered "incapable of redemption," a self-obsessed man who fought with just about everyone in his life, alienating his own family.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a poet, a translator and a prose writer, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet.
view on homosexuality. In gay rights movement: The beginning of the gay rights movement. …his poem “Two Loves” (1894), Lord Alfred (“Bosie”) Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s lover, declared “I [homosexuality] am the love that dare not speak its name.”.
Lord Alfred Douglas was born in England on October 22, 1870. He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and published several collections of poetry. Known by his nickname “Bosie,” he was a friend and lover of Oscar Wilde.
Jul 15, 2013 · In June of 1891, Wilde met Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, a 21-year-old Oxford undergraduate and talented poet, who would come to be the author’s own Dorian Gray — his literary muse, his evil genius, his restless lover.
Two Loves. Lord Alfred Douglas. 1870 –. 1945. I dreamed I stood upon a little hill, And at my feet there lay a ground, that seemed. Like a waste garden, flowering at its will. With buds and blossoms. There were pools that dreamed.
