In Excelsis

In Excelsis

by Lord Alfred Douglas

In Excelsis is a collection of sonnets written by Lord Alfred Douglas during his six-month imprisonment at Wormwood Scrubs. The poems are spiritual in nature and include attacks on Oscar Wilde and support for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

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