I’ve coordinated the audiobook recordings of two volumes of poetry from members of Oscar Wilde’s circle, Lord Alfred Douglas and John Gray. Both volumes can be downloaded for free from LibriVox.
The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas (read/listen) is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of his youth. Douglas was primarily a sonneteer, and this collection features shorter poems about love, hatred, nature, religion, death, and even the art of poetry itself. It does not include Two Loves, the poem made famous by Oscar Wilde’s defence of it in his 1895 trials.
Silverpoints (read/listen) is the first collection of poems by John Gray. Some saw Gray as a protégé of Wilde, who agreed to underwrite the publication of the collection. It includes Gray’s original poems and his translations from the French of Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Baudelaire.
Download and listen to The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas and Silverpoints for free at Librivox.org. You can find a list of all my Wilde related audiobooks on my website.
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