In Excelsis: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In Excelsis, credited to Lord Alfred Douglas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of In Excelsis by Lord Alfred Douglas. Read in English by Rob Marland 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: In Excelsis
• Author credits: Lord Alfred Douglas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 26:55

Catalogue topics

• anti-Semitism
• prison
• winston churchill
• lord alfred douglas

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 6:44
2. 01 - Sonnet I — 1:09
3. 02 - Sonnet II — 1:15
4. 03 - Sonnet III — 1:22
5. 04 - Sonnet IV — 1:03
6. 05 - Sonnet V — 1:00
7. 06 - Sonnet VI — 1:05
8. 07 - Sonnet VII — 1:03
9. 08 - Sonnet VIII — 1:06
10. 09 - Sonnet IX — 1:06
11. 10 - Sonnet X — 1:16
12. 11 - Sonnet XI — 1:16
13. 12 - Sonnet XII — 1:26
14. 13 - Sonnet XIII — 1:04
15. 14 - Sonnet XIV — 1:05
16. 15 - Sonnet XV — 1:24
17. 16 - Sonnet XVI — 1:18
18. 17 - Epilogue — 1:13

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