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Olive Eleanor Custance (7 February 1874 – 12 February 1944), also known as Lady Alfred Douglas, was an English poet and wife of Lord Alfred Douglas. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book.
It reads almost as if Dawson, Olive Custance, Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde and Beardsley were all one. The passion for close description of lush detail, of beauty grafted to elegance ; the preoccupation with the esoteric in all manner of luxurious trappings, outlandish sights and sounds and ‘scarlet’ sins, becomes mere posing at its worst ...
20 de set. de 2014 · Olive Custance was a successful poet in her own right during the decadent 1890s and 1900s. Like Douglas, her family were members of the landed gentry, residing at their country seat in Norfolk. But perhaps surprisingly given her genteel upbringing, Custance began writing decadent poetry from a young age and began to move in literary ...
21 de jun. de 2019 · Olive Custance was one of the most prolific women poets published in The Yellow Book, with poems appearing in eight of its thirteen volumes. She is also mentioned in several studies of the fin de siècle; as her 1972 bibliographer Nancy J. Hawkey states: ‘her name is invariably included in contemporary lists of representative poets ...
12 de dez. de 2017 · The British writer, historian and television producer Jad Adams has produced a extensively researched biographical account of Olive Custance. It is now, by a few hundred words, … Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
The poem's compact structure and simple language create a sense of immediacy, capturing the speaker's emotional turmoil. Compared to the author's other works, this poem is more concise and less flowery, reflecting a shift towards a more restrained and introspective style. Poems by Olive Custance.
Poems. Contents of Opals (1897) The Waking of Spring (1895) [1] The Parting Hour (1895) [2] A Love Lay (1896) [3] Love’s Firstfruits. The Song Spinner. Twilight [4] Ideal.
