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Sibyl Montgomery. 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.
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- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Poet
In 1895, as the storm clouds gathered over the already tempestuous affair between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, Bosie's intemperate and quite possibly insane father, the Marquess of...
Apr 30, 2021 · Simply put, Douglas was a petty and selfish man. He was also a virulent racist. As The Dabbler reports, he spent much of his adult life accusing Jews of various conspiracies. When he was editor of a magazine called Plain English, he filled it with anti-Jewish diatribes.
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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 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.
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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.
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.
