Bosie
Subtitle: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
By: Douglas Murray.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780786866533
Subjects: Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Relations with men; Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "A genius yet a failure through his tormented youth, Bosie's deep and enduring friendship with Oscar Wilde continued throughout the trials and subsequent imprisonment of Wilde and on until his death in 1900. Soon after, Bosie surprisingly eloped and started a family, briefly finding tranquility both in this and in his poetry. He became great friends with George Bernard Shaw and Marie Stopes and was associated with the Bloomsbury Group.

His religious devotion increased as spiralling debts cut short his happiness. Soon battles with the remainder of the Wilde circle, his father-in-law and indeed his libelling of Winston Churchill led to his own imprisonment, followed by a semi-reclusive state until his death in 1945.".

"Douglas Murray has succeeded where Bosie himself failed in securing the release of a Home Office file which was to be sealed until 2043. It holds the key to Bosie's state of mind while in prison and the only original workings of some of his best poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360) and index.
"First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The old years that held and fashioned me : 1870-1889; title: I am the love that dare not speak its name : 1889-1895; title: The cold world loves not my love : 1895-1900; title: Now I have known the uttermost rose of love : 1900-1907; title: When was ought but stories for English prophets? : 1907-1913; title: I bayed the pack alone : 1913-1923; title: Wash we our starward gazing eyes with tears : 1923-1933; title: Till the dead flesh set free the living soul : 1933-1945