Lionel Johnson the "Green Dragon" on Fleet Street. During his lifetime were published his "The Art of Thomas Hardy" (1894), "Poems" (1895), and "Ireland and Other Poems" (1897). He was one of the Rhymers' Club, and cousin to Olivia Shakespear (who dedicated her novel "The False Laurel" to him). In June 1891 Johnson introduced his cousin Lord Alfred Douglas to his friend Oscar Wilde. He later repudiated Wilde in "The Destroyer of a Soul" (1892), deeply regretting initiating what became the highly scandalous love affair between the two men. Over a century after its writing in 1893, Johnson's poem "Dark Angel" inspired
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas French eyewitness account; "The Lord James Douglas took with him about two hundred men-at-arms, and passed the river far off from the host so that he was not perceived: and suddenly he broke into the English host about midnight crying 'Douglas!' 'Douglas!' 'Ye shall all die thieves of England'; and he slew three hundred men, some in their beds and some scarcely ready: and he stroke his horse with spurs, and came to the King's tent, always crying 'Douglas!', and stroke asunder two or three cords of the King's tent." Panic and confusion spread throughout the camp: Edward himself only