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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.
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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.
- British
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Poet
Douglas Murray's Bosie is a brave attempt at rehabilitation of a golden boy who played on his charm... until it ran out
Apr 30, 2021 · But something really changed for Wilde when he met Lord Alfred Douglas (above, right), known as "Bosie," in 1891. Bosie and Wilde quickly became lovers, and Bosie introduced Wilde to a world of gay prostitutes and nonstop parties.
- Jeff Somers
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.
Jul 18, 2000 · And of course Douglas, or Bosie, as he was called, has gone down in history as the man who ruined Wilde. In 1895 Wilde was convicted of ''gross indecency'' and imprisoned because of his...
Oct 14, 2016 · As a free but broken man, Wilde passed the letter to his friend and former lover, the journalist Robert Ross, rather than Bosie, to whom it was written. Bosie would later claim he had destroyed...
Jan 1, 2000 · Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas. Hardcover – January 1, 2000. Looks at the life of the English poet, including his relationship with Oscar Wilde and his role in Wilde's trial and imprisonment, and his "second life" after he married, converted to Catholicism, and was imprisoned for libeling Winston Churchill.
- Douglas Murray
