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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.
Apr 30, 2021 · The trial and his conviction for "gross indecency" ruined Wilde's life both personally and professionally. He was sent to prison from 1895 to 1897, and emerged a broken man. He never recovered and died a few years later, alone and in poverty. And it was all because of Lord Alfred Douglas: The man who destroyed Oscar Wilde.
- Jeff Somers
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 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. Douglas died on March 20, 1945, near Lancing in Sussex, England.
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. stop at the year 1900, is to miss some forty-five years of his. fascinating and eventful life.
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.
Nov 17, 2020 · Douglas Murray gives a remarkably fair account of Alfred Douglas’s extraordinary career; but really the gist of the story is summed up in his subtitle: The Tragic Life of Lord Alfred Douglas. He wonders now whether Alfred Douglas could really have repudiated his homosexuality, though he accepts that there is no evidence to the ...
