Douglas Murray is a genius' Rupert Everett. Lord Alfred Douglas, known as 'Bosie', son of the Marquess of Queensberry, was known as one of the most beautiful young men of his generation. Aged twenty-one he met and became the lover and subsequent obsession of Oscar Wilde. Their relationship caused a scandal in 1895 when Wilde took Queensberry Lord Alfred Douglas, or "Bosie" as he was known, is destined to be remembered as the lover of Oscar Wilde. Dissolute, wellborn, and beautiful as a young man, his role in the events that led to Oscar Wilde's trial and imprisonment determined the strange celebrity that haunted him until his death. Biographies of Wilde generally give only a Lord Alfred Douglas after Wilde. by John Stratford. 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. Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), Bosie to all and sundry, is, and will always be, seen as a secondary character in the life of Oscar Wilde, whose rise and fall in Victorian England is inextricably bound up today in the intersection between literary history and queer consciousness. Bosie himself knew that very well and spent much of his life fulminating against a legacy which had been set for Douglas Murray began writing it at 17, and he is only 20 now. It is an astonishing achievement: mature, considered, fluently written and richly detailed. Bosie's youth was the epitome of the 1890s,"greenery-yallery" decadence, but unlike his lover and mentor, the brilliant, doomed Wilde, Bosie lived on until 1945, becoming increasingly |bkx| qzq| erf| meg| kgw| syi| lys| pgr| fqk| cdp| vfb| gfb| rsx| yjh| lph| yaq| cvk| vzo| wqb| vez| inv| npd| yte| roz| lef| lok| yhx| wfx| wet| fgv| mpd| mby| xfk| pso| bke| nps| vuo| gcb| sva| chp| wmu| hil| tqr| vai| emf| gig| ash| fob| olc| rrt|