Lord Alfred Douglas (1870 - 1945 / England) Biography of Lord
Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Douglas is remembered today for his
tumultuous association with Oscar Wilde and as a minor poet.
Douglas, universally known as Bosie, was born October 22, 1870,
the third son of John Sholto Douglas, ninth Marquess of
Queensberry, and Sibyl, née Montgomery. After a boyhood during
which his parents separated, Douglas went up from Winchester to
Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1889. He met Oscar Wilde through a
mutual friend in early summer, 1891, and they became lovers the
following spring. Douglas's beauty was "like a narcissus--white
and gold," as Wilde told Robert Ross. Most of Douglas's
homoerotic poetry was written between 1893 and 1896 and appeared
in undergraduate literary journals such as The Spirit Lamp,
which he edited, and The Chameleon, or in small-circulation
magazines like The Artist. Poems like "Hymn to Physical Beauty"
(with a nod to Shelley), the sonnet "In an Aegean Port," and
most famously "Two Loves," one of