| Description |
384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-369) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life -- Introduction -- 1. A Privileged Youth -- 2. A Notorious Friendship -- 3. A Notorious Friendship -- 3. A Resounding Scandal -- 4. A Decadent's Downfall -- 5. Loyalty, Machinations and Some Misunderstandings -- 6. Reunion in Naples and Death in Pairs -- 7. A Runaway Match -- 8. Never Rude, Except on Purpose -- 9. A Fiery Furnace of Affliction -- 10. Liberation Through Incarceration -- 11. A Testament of Beauty -- The Poems -- Autumn Days -- A Winter Sunset -- Prince Charming -- Two Loves -- De Profundis -- In Sarum Close -- In Winter -- To Shakespeare -- Apologia -- Hymn to Physical Beauty -- Night Coming into a Garden -- Night Going out of a Garden -- In an egean Port -- The Sphinx -- In Praese of Shame -- A Prayer -- Lust and Hypocrisy -- Impression de Nuit -- A Ballad of Hate -- The Image of Death -- Rondeau -- To Sleep -- In Memoriam: rancis Archibald Douglas -- Va Victis! -- Sonnet, Dedicated to Those French Men of Letters -- The Garden of Death -- Rejected -- St Martin's Summer -- Plainte Eternelle -- Ode to My Soul -- The Travelling Companion -- Ode to Autumn -- Spring -- The Poet and the Moon -- Wine of Summer -- Sonnet on the Sonnet -- The City of the Soul -- A Triad of the Moon -- Ennui -- The Legend of Spinello of Arezzo -- Palmistry -- The Dead Poet -- The Traitor -- Dies Amara Valde -- Forgetfulness -- Premonition -- To a Silent Poet -- Rewards -- The Green River -- To Olive -- Silence -- A Christmas Carol -- Beauty and the Hunter -- The Poet -- Proem -- A Christmas Sonnet -- Behold, Your House Is Left Unto You Desolate -- Stone For Bread -- Before a Crucifix -- The Unspeakable Englishman -- Lighten Our Darkness -- On a Showing of the Nativity -- House of Bread -- To a Certain Judge -- In Excelsis ( I - IX, Epilogue) -- To-With and Ivory Hand Mirror -- Oxford Revisited -- Winston Churchill -- The Wastes of Time -- Translations from the French of Charles Baudelaire -- Harmonie du soir -- Le Balcon -- Recueillement -- La Beaute |
| Subject |
Douglas, Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945.
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Douglas, Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945. |
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, English. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780720612707 hardback |
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0720612705 hardback |
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