Douglas Ainslie

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Grant Duff Douglas Ainslie (1865–1948) was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat. A contributor to the Yellow Book, he met and befriended Oscar Wilde at age twenty-one while an undergraduate at Oxford.^[1] He was also associated with other such notable figures as Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater. The first translator of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce into English, he also lectured on Hegel.

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• Escarlamonde and Other Poems (1893) [1]
• John of Damascus (1901)
• Moments: Poems (1905) [2]
• The Song of the Stewarts: Prelude (1909) [3]
• Mirage: Poems (1911) [4]
• Adventures Social and Literary (1922)
• Chosen Poems (1926)
• The Conquest of Pleasure (1942)

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