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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.
Lord Alfred Douglas was an extremely good-looking man when he was young, but his physical beauty hid a pretty terrible person. As the Irish Times notes, he's widely considered "incapable of redemption," a self-obsessed man who fought with just about everyone in his life, alienating his own family.
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.
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.
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.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas or 'Bosie' as he is better known is always referred to in the context of his disastrous relationship with Oscar Wilde. However, to dismiss him merely as Wilde's lover and.
Lord Alfred Douglas : a biography by Hyde, H. Montgomery (Harford Montgomery), 1907-1989
This chapter explores Wilde’s personal approach to Platonic love, as expressed in his court testimony and the writing he addressed to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (including love letters and the prison letter that is commonly known as De Profundis).
Lord Alfred Douglas was a British poet and the romantic partner of playwright Oscar Wilde, known for his beauty and wit. His relationship with Wilde was both passionate and tumultuous, deeply influencing Wilde's life and work.