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  Lord Alfred Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (October 22, 1870 – March 20, 1945), nicknamed "Bosie", was the third son of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and Sibyl Montgomery.
In 1902, Douglas married Olive Eleanor Custance, an heiress and poet.
Queensberry, Marquess of [Francis Douglas] and Percy Colson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Alfred_Douglas   (804 words)

  
 Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Known to most as the friend of Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas or "Bosie" as he preferred to be called (a nickname gained in childhood), was an accomplished poet, writer, and editor.
It was only then that I became aware of the personage of Lord Alfred himself and endeavored to learn more of the man who seems to be remembered almost more for his relationship to Oscar Wilde than for his own important contributions to the world of literature.
Lord Gawain is striving himself to rehabilitate the name of Lord Alfred, as well as promote and make more accessible to the general public, the wonderful sonnets and poetry of his great-uncle.
www.geocities.com /starparty1/bosie   (1718 words)

  
 Gross Indecency: Lord Alfred Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bosie's son spent almost all of his adult life in mental institutions.
Lord Alfred Douglas's poem Two Loves, originally printed in The Cameleon, 1894, is the source of the phrase "the love that dare not speak its name" (http://members.aol.colm/starparty/twoloves_index.html).
The Unofficial Page of Lord Alfred Douglas reports, among other things, on contemporary assessments of Lord Alfred Douglas, including Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (who praised Douglas's sonnets), Frank Harris (compared Douglas's sonnets to Shakespeare's), and George Bernard Shaw (who compared Douglas to Shelley).
condor.stcloudstate.edu /~scogdill/19thc/grossindecency/bosie.html   (280 words)

  
 Letters from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
Letters from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
The following letter was introduced in Wilde's libel trial by sir Edward Clark, Wilde's attorney.
There are such wide abysses now of space and land between us.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/lettersfromwilde.html   (437 words)

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