I am so very pleased in this renewed interest in my life; hopefully this book will go a long way to correcting many of the inaccuracies that so many people have been eager to speak and believe about me. Most importantly, however, it is to contain a selection of my poetry, which has been quite inexplicably out of print for quite some time.
Yours,
Alfred Douglas

Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life and Greatest Work by Caspar Winterman

‘His [Winterman’s] knowledge of Lord Alfred Douglas is second to none.’– Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde

Caspar Winterman’s eagerly awaited and highly controversial biography of Lord Alfred Douglas sets out to defend Oscar Wilde’s beloved ‘Bosie’ from over a century of false accusations, lies and misinformation.
By directly engaging with the source of these attacks – Wilde’s De Profundis – upon which most previous biographies have been based, Caspar Wintermanns is able to show that this was a work written in the depths of despair while Wilde was incarcerated in gaol, being passionate, cruel and deeply untruthful.
Wintermanns proves that, far from being a rakish homme fatale, Alfred Douglas was in fact a supportive and kind lover who worshipped the playwright and whose life was destroyed by both those who loved and hated the ostentatiously homosexual Wilde.

Accompanied by a long overdue anthology of Douglas’ poetry, Alfred Douglas: A Poet’s Life and His Finest Work is a revealing and moving representation of a tragically misunderstood poet.

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