Lord alfred douglas bio
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Biography Lord Alfred Douglas
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Poet Biography
Lord Alfred Douglas is remembered today for his tumultuous association with Oscar Wilde and as a minor poet.Douglas, universally known as Bosie, was born October 22, , the third son of John Sholto Douglas, ninth Marquess of Queensberry, and Sibyl, née Montgomery.
Lord alfred douglas bio
After a boyhood during which his parents separated, Douglas went up from Winchester to Magdalen College, Oxford, in He met Oscar Wilde through a mutual friend in early summer, , and they became lovers the following spring. Douglas's beauty was "like a narcissus--white and gold," as Wilde told Robert Ross.
Most of Douglas's homoerotic poetry was written between and and appeared in undergraduate literary journals such as The Spirit Lamp, which he edited, and The Chameleon, or in small-circulation magazines like The Artist.
Poems like "Hymn to Physical Beauty" (with a nod to Shelley), the sonnet "In an Aegean Port," and most f