Alfred Douglass: A Poet's Life and His Finest Work Book

Acknowledgements     7
List of Illustrations     13
Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life
Introduction     17
A Privileged Youth     21
A Notorious Friendship     31
A Resounding Scandal     47
A Decadent's Downfall     59
Loyalty, Machinations and Some Misunderstandings     71
Reunion in Naples and Death in Paris     83
A Runaway Match     99
Never Rude, Except on Purpose     115
A Fiery Furnace of Affliction     129
Liberation Through Incarceration     149
A Testament of Beauty     169
List of Abbreviations     173
Notes to the Text     175
The Poems
Autumn Days     207
A Winter Sunset     208
Prince Charming     209
Two Loves     210
De Profundis     212
In Sarum Close     212
In Winter     213
To Shakespeare     214
Apologia     214
Hymn to Physical Beauty     215
Night Coming into a Garden     218
Night Going out of a Garden     219
In an Aegean Port     220
The Sphinx     220
In Praise of Shame     221
A Prayer     222
Lust and Hypocrisy     222
Impression de Nuit     223
A Ballad of Hate     224
The Image of Death     224
Rondeau     225
To Sleep     226
In Memoriam: Francis Archibald Douglas...     227
Vae Victis!     227
Sonnet, Dedicated to Those French Men of Letters...     229
The Garden of Death     230
Rejected     231
St Martin's Summer     233
Plainte Eternelle     233
Ode to My Soul     234
The Travelling Companion     235
Ode to Autumn     236
Spring     237
The Poet and the Moon     238
Wine of Summer     239
Sonnet on the Sonnet     242
The City of the Soul     242
A Triad of the Moon     244
Ennui     246
The Legend of Spinello of Arezzo     247
Palmistry     248
The Dead Poet     249
The Traitor     249
Dies Amara Valde     250
Forgetfulness     250
Premonition      251
To a Silent Poet     251
Rewards     252
The Green River     253
To Olive     253
Silence     256
A Christmas Carol     257
Beauty and the Hunter     257
The Poet     258
Proem     259
A Christmas Sonnet     259
Behold, Your House Is Left Unto You Desolate     260
Stones for Bread     260
Before a Crucifix     261
The Unspeakable Englishman     261
Lighten Our Darkness     262
On a Showing of the Nativity     262
House of Bread     263
To a Certain Judge     263
In Excelsis (I-IX, Epilogue)     264
To - with an Ivory Hand Mirror     269
Oxford Revisited     269
Winston Churchill     270
The Wastes of Time     271
Translations from the French of Charles Baudelaire: Harmonie du soir     272
Le Balcon     274
Recueillement     276
La Beaute     278
Notes to the Poems     281
Index of First Lines     319
Bibliography     323
General Index      371