Plays and Poetry of Gay Interest

The City of the Soul
anonymous [Lord Alfred Douglas]
Publisher: Grant Richards
London, UK

Year


 		1899 1st edition       
Cover / size: Hardback/ h 22.7 cm * w 15.1 cm / 83pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   001246

Condition Good

Cover: front and back grey board; spine vellum with faded gilt lettering; edges worn, corners rubbed and dented; edges stained black. Page edges unevenly cut, top edge stained. Front endpapers: slight mottling: pencil note. Rear endpapers: sonnet in ink ("The Dead Poet") and 4 lines in pencil ("Blondie went to Heaven"). Top of latter pages stained but otherwise clean.

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The City of the Soul [Lord Alfred Douglas]

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Plot / Content:

Contents:
The City of the Soul:
     In the salt terror of a stormy sea
     What shall we do, my soul, to please the King
     The fields of Phantasy are all too wide
     Each new hour's passage is the acolyte
The Ballad of Saint Vitus
The Travelling Companion
A Triad of the Moon
Sonnet on the Sonnet
The Legend of Spinello of Arezzo
Spring
Ennui
Summer
Autumn
Harmonie du Soir
Le Balcon
Perkin Warbeck
The Garden of Death
The Sphynx
To Shakespeare
A Summer Storm
Amoris Vincula
In Sarum Close
Impression de nuit
A Song
To L.
In Winter
Plainte Eternelle
In Summer
Night coming into a Garden
Night going out of a Garden
Jonquil and Fleur-de-Lys
A Winter Sunset
Apologia
In Memoriam
A Prayer
Autumn Days
The Image of Death
To Sleep
Vae Victis
Rejected
Ode to my Soul

None of the poems is explicitly gay, although several may be read as having a homoerotic subtext.



Background / Biography:

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), nicknamed "Bosie", was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian (homosexual / ephebophile) in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. continued on Wikipedia



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"Thou that wast once my loved and loving friend, / A friend no more, I had forgot thee quite, / Why hast thou come to trouble my delight / With memories? Oh I had clean made end / Of all that time, I had made haste to send / My sould into red places, and to light / A torch of pleasure to burn up my night. / What I have woven hast thou come to rend?

 In silent acres of forgetful flowers. / Crowned as of old with happy daffodils, / Long time my wounded sould has been a-straying, / Alas! it has chanced now on sombre hours / Of hard remembrances and sad-dalaying, / Leaving green valleys for the bitter hills.'"

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