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Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October – 20 March ), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde....
The autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas ; Publication date: ; Publisher: London: M. Secker ; Collection: trent_university;.
Lord Alfred Douglas
English poet and journalist (1870–1945)
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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 University he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp, that carried a homoerotic subtext, and met Wilde, starting a close but stormy relationship. Douglas's father, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred it and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality.
Wilde sued him for criminal libel, but some intimate notes were found and Wilde was later imprisoned.
Lord Alfred Douglas, known as Bosie, had the face and body of a classic Greek statue, and his life, in which fate and his own hubris interacted disastrously.On his release, he briefly lived with Douglas in Naples, but they had separated by the time Wilde died in 1900. Douglas married a poet, Olive Custance, in 1902 and had a son, Raymond.
On converting to Catholicism in 1911, he repudiated homosexuality, and in a Catholic ma