Alfred Douglas: a poet's life and his finest work
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Alfred Douglas: A Poet s Life
Introduction
17
1.
21
2.
31
3.
47
4.
59
5.
71
6.
83
7.
99
8.
115
9.
129
10.
149
11.
169
List of Abbreviations
173
Notes to the Text
175
The Poems
Autumn Days
207
A Winter Sunset
208
Prince Charming
209
Two Loves
210
De
212
In
212
In Winter
213
To Shakespeare
214
Apologia
214
Hymn to Physical Beauty
215
Night Coming into a Garden
218
Night Going out of a Garden
219
In an ^gean Port
220
The Sphinx
220
In Praise of Shame
221
A Prayer
222
Lust and Hypocrisy
222
Impression
223
A Ballad of
224
The Image of Death
224
Rondeau
225
To Sleep
226
In
227
Vse
227
Sonnet, Dedicated to Those French Men of Letters
229
The Garden of Death
230
Rejected
231
St Martin s Summer
233
Plainte Eternelle
233
Ode to My Soul
234
The Travelling Companion
235
Ode to Autumn
236
Spring
237
The Poet and the Moon
238
Wine of Summer
239
Sonnet on the Sonnet
242
The City of the Soul
242
A Triad of the Moon
244
Ennui
246
The Legend of
247
Palmistry
248
The Dead Poet
249
The Traitor
249
Dies
250
Forgetfulness
250
Premonition
251
To a Silent Poet
251
Rewards
252
The Green River
253
To Olive
253
Silence
256
A
257
Beauty and the Hunter
257
The Poet
258
Proem
259
A Christmas Sonnet
259
Behold, Your House Is Left Unto You Desolate
260
Stones for Bread
260
Before a Crucifix
261
The Unspeakable Englishman
261
Lighten Our Darkness
262
On a Showing of the Nativity
262
House of Bread
263
To a Certain Judge
263
In Excelsis (I-IX, Epilogue)
264
To
269
Oxford Revisited
269
Winston Churchill
270
The Wastes of Time
271
Transitions from the French of Charles Baudelaire
Harmonie du soir
272
Le Balcon
274
Recueillement
276
La Beauté
278
Notes
281
Index
319
Bibliography
323
General Index
371
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
remarked that his life had been as fantastic and
melodramatic as any novel by Balzac , yet Douglas
or Bosie as he was called from childhood
remembered for his relationship with the playwright
and author Oscar Wilde.
The two met in
and an undergraduate of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Wilde, who could resist everything except temptation,
fell for the budding poet immediately. Douglas fully
reciprocated Wilde s affection, but his father, the
Marquess of Queensberry, although far from being a
paragon of virtue himself, objected to their relationship
on moral grounds. Wilde, then at the height of his fame,
sued the nobleman for criminal libel in
lost the case, was arrested the same day and after a
couple of sensational trials was sentenced to two years
hard labour for homosexual practices. The scandal
destroyed him and ruined Bosie s life as well.
Bosie s story is indeed a gripping one, a Greek
tragedy with elements of soap opera. The shadow of
Wilde broods over it all, and new evidence of Bosie s
devotion to him, while not making the artist s downfall
any less catastrophic, certainly serves to make it less
squalid and far more romantic.
Caspar Wintermans s insightful and absorbing
biography, which has appeared in several languages
and been turned into an award-winning documentary,
Two Loves, is followed by a fully annotated selection
of Bosie s verse. He was a considerable poet, but his
work has always been overshadowed by his
involvement in the Wilde affair. His verse, meticu¬
lously crafted, did not appeal to the post-war
generation, but the time is ripe for a rediscovery of his
work. For the first time one may enjoy between the
covers of one book lyrics that span all phases of Bosie s
life, including his decadent verse, chief among which
is Two Loves containing the famous line I am the
Love that dare not speak its name , as well as the
sonnets written to his wife, Olive Custance, with whom
he eloped in
Beauty and the Hunter and House of Bread , one of
the finest Christmas poems ever written. These are
well overdue for reappraisal, and this book gives
readers an opportunity to appreciate the remarkable
talent of this remarkable man.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life
Introduction
17
1.
21
2.
31
3.
47
4.
59
5.
71
6.
83
7.
99
8.
115
9.
129
10.
149
11.
169
List of Abbreviations
173
Notes to the Text
175
The Poems
Autumn Days
207
A Winter Sunset
208
Prince Charming
209
Two Loves
210
De
212
In
212
In Winter
213
To Shakespeare
214
Apologia
214
Hymn to Physical Beauty
215
Night Coming into a Garden
218
Night Going out of a Garden
219
In an ^gean Port
220
The Sphinx
220
In Praise of Shame
221
A Prayer
222
Lust and Hypocrisy
222
Impression
223
A Ballad of
224
The Image of Death
224
Rondeau
225
To Sleep
226
In
227
Vse
227
Sonnet, Dedicated to Those French Men of Letters
229
The Garden of Death
230
Rejected
231
St Martin's Summer
233
Plainte Eternelle
233
Ode to My Soul
234
The Travelling Companion
235
Ode to Autumn
236
Spring
237
The Poet and the Moon
238
Wine of Summer
239
Sonnet on the Sonnet
242
The City of the Soul
242
A Triad of the Moon
244
Ennui
246
The Legend of
247
Palmistry
248
The Dead Poet
249
The Traitor
249
Dies
250
Forgetfulness
250
Premonition
251
To a Silent Poet
251
Rewards
252
The Green River
253
To Olive
253
Silence
256
A
257
Beauty and the Hunter
257
The Poet
258
Proem
259
A Christmas Sonnet
259
Behold, Your House Is Left Unto You Desolate
260
Stones for Bread
260
Before a Crucifix
261
The Unspeakable Englishman
261
Lighten Our Darkness
262
On a Showing of the Nativity
262
House of Bread
263
To a Certain Judge
263
In Excelsis (I-IX, Epilogue)
264
To
269
Oxford Revisited
269
Winston Churchill
270
The Wastes of Time
271
Transitions from the French of Charles Baudelaire
Harmonie du soir
272
Le Balcon
274
Recueillement
276
La Beauté
278
Notes
281
Index
319
Bibliography
323
General Index
371
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
remarked that his life had been 'as fantastic and
melodramatic as any novel by Balzac', yet Douglas
or 'Bosie' as he was called from childhood
remembered for his relationship with the playwright
and author Oscar Wilde.
The two met in
and an undergraduate of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Wilde, who could resist everything except temptation,
fell for the budding poet immediately. Douglas fully
reciprocated Wilde's affection, but his father, the
Marquess of Queensberry, although far from being a
paragon of virtue himself, objected to their relationship
on moral grounds. Wilde, then at the height of his fame,
sued the nobleman for criminal libel in
lost the case, was arrested the same day and after a
couple of sensational trials was sentenced to two years'
hard labour for homosexual practices. The scandal
destroyed him and ruined Bosie's life as well.
Bosie's story is indeed a gripping one, a Greek
tragedy with elements of soap opera. The shadow of
Wilde broods over it all, and new evidence of Bosie's
devotion to him, while not making the artist's downfall
any less catastrophic, certainly serves to make it less
squalid and far more romantic.
Caspar Wintermans's insightful and absorbing
biography, which has appeared in several languages
and been turned into an award-winning documentary,
Two Loves, is followed by a fully annotated selection
of Bosie's verse. He was a considerable poet, but his
work has always been overshadowed by his
involvement in the Wilde affair. His verse, meticu¬
lously crafted, did not appeal to the post-war
generation, but the time is ripe for a rediscovery of his
work. For the first time one may enjoy between the
covers of one book lyrics that span all phases of Bosie's
life, including his decadent verse, chief among which
is 'Two Loves' containing the famous line 'I am the
Love that dare not speak its name', as well as the
sonnets written to his wife, Olive Custance, with whom
he eloped in
'Beauty and the Hunter' and 'House of Bread', one of
the finest Christmas poems ever written. These are
well overdue for reappraisal, and this book gives
readers an opportunity to appreciate the remarkable
talent of this remarkable man. |
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