
In Excelsis - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Lord Alfred Douglas,
1 / 18Preface
- 1. Preface
- 2. Sonnet I
- 3. Sonnet II
- 4. Sonnet III
- 5. Sonnet IV
- 6. Sonnet V
- 7. Sonnet VI
- 8. Sonnet VII
- 9. Sonnet VIII
- 10. Sonnet IX
- 11. Sonnet X
- 12. Sonnet XI
- 13. Sonnet XII
- 14. Sonnet XIII
- 15. Sonnet XIV
- 16. Sonnet XV
- 17. Sonnet XVI
- 18. Epilogue
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In 1924, Lord Alfred Douglas was sued by Winston Churchill after he alleged that the politician had been part of a Jewish-backed conspiracy to commit various acts of wartime misconduct. Douglas lost the case and was jailed for six months. During his time at Wormwood Scrubs, Douglas wrote a sonnet sequence that he would title In Excelsis (in the highest), a reversal of the title of the prison letter written by his former lover, Oscar Wilde (De Profundis - from the depths). Douglas claims in the preface to the volume that the poems are spiritual in nature. They also include poorly disguised attacks on Wilde and support for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. (Rob Marland)
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