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Lord Alfred Douglas was a British author primarily known for his poetry. His work is often studied for its role in the Aesthetic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period characterized by its emphasis on beauty and artistic expression for their own sake, often in defiance of traditional moral and social norms. Douglas's ...
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Analysis (ai): This poem explores themes of desolation,...
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Analysis (ai): This poem, with its lucid and somber tone,...
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Only God's glory, for never a sunrise mars. The luminous air of Heaven. Beyond, abrupt, A grey stone wall. o'ergrown with velvet moss. Uprose; and gazing I stood long, all mazed. To see a place so strange, so sweet, so fair. And as I stood and marvelled, lo! across. The garden came a youth; one hand he raised.
Lord Alfred Douglas. 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.
Two Loves. 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. Black and unruffled; there were white lilies. A few, and crocuses, and violets.
CONTENTS Preface COLLECTED POEMS Apologia, 3 Autumn Days, § To Shakespeare, 6 Amoris Vincula, 7 A Summer Storm, 8 A Winter Sunset, 9 In Summer, Io In Winter, 12 In Sarum Close, 1
shorter poems about love, hatred, nature, religion, death, and even the art of poetry itself. It does not include Two Loves, the poem made famous by Oscar Wilde’s defence of it in his 1895 trials. (Summary by Rob Marland.) Cover image: photograph of Lord Alfred Douglas, the frontispiece of the collection. This image is in the public domain.
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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. He died on March 20, 1945, in Sussex. Lord Alfred Douglas - Lord Alfred Douglas was born in England ...
